CVE-2025-48976Apache Commons FileUpload, Apache Commons FileUpload: FileUpload DoS via part headers
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 34.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 18 days later
· 18 days later
Published
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 34.0% · top 1.6% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Commons FileUpload
- affected 1.0 – < 1.6
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Commons FileUpload
- affected 2.0.0-M1 – < 2.0.0-M4
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavencommons-fileupload:commons-fileuploadGHSA-vv7r-c36w-3prj (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.apache.commons:commons-fileupload2-coreGHSA-vv7r-c36w-3prj (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/fbs3wrr3p67vkjcxogqqqqz45pqtso12 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/16/4 (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00008.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00009.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-18407 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-vv7r-c36w-3prj (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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