CVE-2025-48976
Vulnerability Summary
Timeline
Description
Allocation of resources for multipart headers with insufficient limits enabled a DoS vulnerability in Apache Commons FileUpload. This issue affects Apache Commons FileUpload: from 1.0 before 1.6; from 2.0.0-M1 before 2.0.0-M4. Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 1.6 or 2.0.0-M4, which fix the issue.
CVSS Metrics
- v4.0•HIGH•Score: 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 32.96%• Percentile: 98%
Techniques & Countermeasures
- CWE-770•Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any intended restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated.
Affected Systems
- apache software foundation•apache commons fileupload
≥ 1.0, < 1.6 | ≥ 2.0.0-M1, < 2.0.0-M4
- apache•commons_fileupload
≥ 1.0, < 1.6 | 2.0.0:m1 | 2.0.0:m1-rc1 | 2.0.0:m2 | 2.0.0:m2-rc1 | 2.0.0:m3 | 2.0.0:m3-rc1
- chainguard•geoserver-2.27
< 2.27.1-r1
- chainguard•geoserver-2.27-community
< 2.27.1-r1
- chainguard•geoserver-2.27-docker
< 2.27.1-r1
- chainguard•jenkins-2
< 2.515-r0
- chainguard•jenkins-2-openjdk-17
< 2.515-r0
- chainguard•jenkins-2-openjdk-21
< 2.515-r0
- chainguard•jenkins-2.504-openjdk-17
all
- chainguard•jenkins-2.504-openjdk-21
all
- chainguard•jenkins-compat
< 2.515-r0
- chainguard•jenkins-docker-agent-openjdk-21
< 2.515-r0
- chainguard•jenkins-remoting
< 2.515-r0
- chainguard•jenkins-utils
< 2.515-r0
- wolfi•jenkins-2
< 2.515-r0
- wolfi•jenkins-2-openjdk-17
< 2.515-r0
- wolfi•jenkins-2-openjdk-21
< 2.515-r0
- wolfi•jenkins-compat
< 2.515-r0
- wolfi•jenkins-docker-agent-openjdk-21
< 2.515-r0
- wolfi•jenkins-remoting
< 2.515-r0
- wolfi•jenkins-utils
< 2.515-r0
- debian•libcommons-fileupload-java
< 1.4-1+deb11u1 | all | all | all
- debian•tomcat10
< 10.1.52-1~deb12u1 | < 10.1.52-1~deb13u1 | < 10.1.46-1
- debian•tomcat11
< 11.0.15-1~deb13u1 | < 11.0.11-1
- debian•tomcat9
< 9.0.107-0+deb11u1 | < 9.0.70-2 | < 9.0.70-2 | < 9.0.70-2
- ubuntu•libcommons-fileupload-java
all | all | all | all | all | all | all
- ubuntu•tomcat10
all | all | all
- ubuntu•tomcat11
all | all
- ubuntu•tomcat6
all
- ubuntu•tomcat9
all
- commons-fileupload•commons-fileupload
≥ 1.0, < 1.6.0
- org.apache.commons•commons-fileupload2-core
≥ 2.0.0-M1, < 2.0.0-M4
References (17)
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/fbs3wrr3p67vkjcxogqqqqz45pqtso12
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/16/4
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00008.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00009.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48976
- https://github.com/apache/commons-fileupload/commit/b247774a72a044f5d5380ae947140ee80af4e78b
- https://github.com/apache/commons-fileupload/commit/bf68f63cfb312ef4710fb3dfb4d8e4e1665f4497
- https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/97790a35a27d236fa053e660676c3f8196284d93
- https://github.com/apache/commons-fileupload
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-48976
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-48976
- https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/74f69ffaf61e54c727603e7e831fe20f0ac5d2a7
- https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/667ddd76e2a0e762f3a784d86f0d25e7fd7cdb86
- https://github.com/apache/commons-fileupload/commit/2108495a4775910b8559f18ed5a779d60542ee96
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-48976
- https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/48xxx/CVE-2025-48976.json