CVE-2025-23184 (GCVE-0-2025-23184)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-21 09:35
Modified
2025-12-15 15:58
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Summary
A potential denial of service vulnerability is present in versions of Apache CXF before 3.5.10, 3.6.5 and 4.0.6. In some edge cases, the CachedOutputStream instances may not be closed and, if backed by temporary files, may fill up the file system (it applies to servers and clients).
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache CXF Version: 0   ≤
Version: 3.6.0   ≤
Version: 4.0.0   ≤
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