CVE-2025-48795

Description

Apache CXF stores large stream based messages as temporary files on the local filesystem. A bug was introduced which means that the entire temporary file is read into memory and then logged. An attacker might be able to exploit this to cause a denial of service attack by causing an out of memory exception. In addition, it is possible to configure CXF to encrypt temporary files to prevent sensitive credentials from being cached unencrypted on the local filesystem, however this bug means that the cached files are written out to logs unencrypted. Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 3.5.11, 3.6.6, 4.0.7 or 4.1.1, which fixes this issue.

Reserved 2025-05-26 | Published 2025-07-15 | Updated 2025-07-15 | Assigner apache

Problem types

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Product status

Default status
unaffected

3.5.10 before 3.5.11
affected

3.6.5 before 3.6.6
affected

4.0.6 before 4.0.7
affected

4.1.0 before 4.1.1
affected

Credits

MAUGIN Thomas https://github.com/Thom-x, Qlik finder

References

lists.apache.org/thread/vo5qv02mvv5plmb6z2xf1ktjmrpv3jmn vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2025-48795)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-48795)

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