TI-2025-29118 Aliases CVE-2025-46392 GHSA-pvp8-3xj6-8c6x

Apache Commons Configuration: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption when loading untrusted configurations in 1.x

LOW 33CWE-400Published 2025-05-09 · Updated 2025-05-13

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: Partial Red Hat: 1 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-400.

Summary

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Apache Commons Configuration 1.x. There are a number of issues in Apache Commons Configuration 1.x that allow excessive resource consumption when loading untrusted configurations or using unexpected usage patterns. The Apache Commons Configuration team does not intend to fix these issues in 1.x. Apache Commons Configuration 1.x is still safe to use in scenario's where you only load trusted configurations. Users that load untrusted configurations or give attackers control over usage patterns are recommended to upgrade to the 2.x version line, which fixes these issues. Apache Commons Configuration 2.x is not a drop-in replacement, but as it uses a separate Maven groupId and Java package namespace they can be loaded side-by-side, making it possible to do a gradual migration.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.02123 82nd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Partial Apache Commons Configuration (Apache Software Foundation): 2.0.0Red Hat: 1 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Apache	Apache Commons Configuration	1 to before 2.0.0	2.0.0	Patch available	CNA
—	commons-configuration:commons-configuration (Maven)	up to 1.10	—	No fix listed	GHSA-pvp8-3xj6-8c6x

Apache Commons Configuration VendorApache Affected 1 to before 2.0.0 Fixed in 2.0.0 Patch available CNA
commons-configuration:commons-configuration (Maven) Vendor— Affected up to 1.10 Fixed in — No fix listed GHSA-pvp8-3xj6-8c6x

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_configuration::::::::	1.0 to before 2.0	Vulnerable	Apache

cpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_configuration:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 1.0 to before 2.0 Vulnerable ·Apache

Remediation

Fix · CNA Apache Commons Configuration (Apache Software Foundation) Fixed in 2.0.0

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Product	Status	Plan or fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Affected	No fix planned: Out of support scope

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-46392
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-pvp8-3xj6-8c6x

References

Advisory 2

Other 3

TI-2022-14972 Apache Commons Configuration insecure interpolation defaults CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2020-01877 Improper input validation in Apache Commons Configuration CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
TI-2024-19305 Apache Commons Configuration: StackOverflowError adding property in AbstractListDelimiterHandler.flattenIterator() CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3
TI-2026-33022 Apache Commons Configuration: StackOverflowError for YAML input with cycles CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
TI-2024-19306 Out-of-bounds write in Apache Commons Configuration CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4

Sources

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