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medium 5.3

CVE-2025-48924 json

Apache Commons Lang, Apache Commons Lang: ClassUtils.getClass(...) can throw a StackOverflowError on very long inputs

published 2025-07-11 15 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also EUVD-2025-21159 , GHSA-j288-q9x7-2f5v

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.6%
EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in Apache Commons Lang.

This issue affects Apache Commons Lang: Starting with commons-lang:commons-lang 2.0 to 2.6, and, from org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 3.0 before 3.18.0.

The methods ClassUtils.getClass(...) can throw StackOverflowError on very long inputs. Because an Error is usually not handled by applications and libraries, a StackOverflowError could cause an application to stop.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.18.0, which fixes the issue.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 3.18.0
  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Commons Lang 3.18.0
  • libcommons-lang-java Debian 12 2.6-10+deb12u1
  • libcommons-lang-java Debian 13 2.6-10+deb13u1
  • libcommons-lang-java Debian 14 2.6-11
  • libcommons-lang3-java Debian 12 3.12.0-2+deb12u1
  • libcommons-lang3-java Debian 13 3.17.0-1+deb13u1
  • libcommons-lang3-java Debian 14 3.17.0-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-48924

  • libcommons-lang-java Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2.6-9ubuntu0.22.04.1
  • libcommons-lang-java Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 2.6-10ubuntu0.1
  • libcommons-lang3-java Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 3.11-1ubuntu0.1
  • libcommons-lang-java Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 2.6-3ubuntu2+esm1
  • libcommons-lang-java Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2.6-6ubuntu2+esm1
  • libcommons-lang-java Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 2.6-8ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • libcommons-lang-java Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 2.6-9ubuntu0.20.04.1~esm1
  • libcommons-lang3-java Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 3.2.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-48924

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • xmvn SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 4.3.0-150200.3.30.1
  • guava SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 33.2.1-150200.3.15.1
  • jansi SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 2.4.0-150200.3.9.1
  • maven SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 3.9.16-150200.4.33.1
  • xmvn-mojo SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 4.3.0-150200.3.30.1
  • plexus-xml SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 3.0.1-150200.5.10.1
  • xmvn-tools SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 4.3.0-150200.3.30.1
  • google-guice SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 6.0.0-150200.3.13.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:3390-1SUSE-SU-2026:21996-1SUSE-SU-2025:02818-1SUSE-SU-2025:02786-1SUSE-SU-2025:02785-1

  • apache-commons-configuration2 openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.15.0-1.1
  • apache-commons-lang3 openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.18.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:10784-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15347-1

  • apache-commons-lang3 CBL-Mariner 2.0, Azure Linux 3.0 3.8.1-6

azure linux advisories AZL-65144AZL-65181

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-48924 updated cvss 3.7

commons-lang/commons-lang: org.apache.commons/commons-lang3: Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in Apache Commons Lang

  • Red Hat Cryostat 4 commons-lang, commons-lang3 Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift commons-lang, commons-lang3 Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services jenkins, jenkins-2-plugins Red Hat OpenShift Serverless openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-log-sink-rhel8, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-aws-s3-sink-rhel8, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-aws-sns-sink-rhel8, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-aws-sqs-sink-rhel8, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-timer-source-rhel8, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-aws-s3-source-rhel8, +3 more Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3 openshift-service-mesh/istio-cni-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/istio-pilot-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/istio-proxyv2-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/istio-rhel9-operator, openshift-service-mesh/istio-must-gather-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/istio-sail-operator-bundle, +1 more Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 commons-lang, commons-lang3
    +32 more products
    Red Hat AMQ Clients commons-lang, commons-lang3 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 commons-lang, commons-lang3, python3.11-drools-jpy-jar Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 commons-lang, commons-lang3 Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3 commons-lang3 Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 commons-lang, commons-lang3 Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 2 commons-lang, commons-lang3 Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 3 commons-lang, commons-lang3 Red Hat build of Debezium 2 commons-lang, commons-lang3 Red Hat build of Debezium 3 commons-lang, commons-lang3 Red Hat Build of Keycloak commons-lang3 Red Hat build of OptaPlanner 8 commons-lang, commons-lang3 Red Hat build of Quarkus commons-lang3 Red Hat Certificate System 10 jss, redhat-pki Red Hat Data Grid 8 commons-lang, commons-lang3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qpid-cpp, qpid-qmf, ruby-qpid-qmf, python-qpid-qmf, qpid-cpp-client, qpid-cpp-server, +7 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 slf4j, velocity, maven-jxr, maven-scm, maven-doxia, maven-wagon, +55 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 jss, qdox, sisu, guava, jansi, jsoup, +120 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 jmc, jss, qdox, log4j, slf4j, pki-ca, +40 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 qdox, slf4j, jakarta-mail Red Hat Fuse 7 commons-lang, commons-lang3 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 commons-lang, commons-lang3 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 commons-lang, commons-lang3 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack commons-lang, commons-lang3 Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5 commons-lang, commons-lang3 Red Hat JBoss Web Server 6 commons-lang, commons-lang3 Red Hat Offline Knowledge Portal offline-knowledge-portal/rhokp-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9, rhoai/odh-modelmesh-rhel8, rhoai/odh-modelmesh-rhel9, rhoai/odh-trustyai-service-rhel8, rhoai/odh-trustyai-service-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/idea-rhel8, devspaces/server-rhel8, devspaces/server-rhel9, devspaces-tech-preview/idea-rhel9 Red Hat Process Automation 7 commons-lang, commons-lang3 Red Hat Satellite 6 candlepin, puppetserver, commons-lang3, candlepin-selinux Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 commons-lang, commons-lang3 Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka 2 commons-lang, commons-lang3
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4.14.2 for Spring Boot 3.5.8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:23143
  • Red Hat Streams for Apache Kafka 2.9.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:15697

3 more fixed in the full advisory

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
15 mo ago

Exploit prediction

2.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.commons:commons-lang3
>=3.0, <3.18.0
3.18.0
maven commons-lang:commons-lang
>=2.0, <=2.6
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Commons Lang

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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