🛡️ CVE-2025-3985 — central-authentication-service

🟢 CVSS 2.7 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 NVD
2.7
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Apereo CAS has inefficient regular expression complexity

A vulnerability was found in Apereo CAS 5.2.6. It has been classified as problematic. This affects the function ResponseEntity of the file cas-5.2.6\webapp-mgmt\cas-management-webapp-support\src\main\java\org\apereo\cas\mgmt\services\web\ManageRegisteredServicesMultiActionController.java. The manipulation of the argument Query leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-3985 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

CVE-2025-3985 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • central-authentication-service
  • org.apereo.cas:cas-management-webapp-support

Timeline and source

Published on 27 April 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

vuldb.com
vuldb.com
vuldb.com
wx.mail.qq.com

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-04-27
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
central-authentication-service
org.apereo.cas:cas-management-webapp-support

References

Permissions Required, VDB Entry https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.306321
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry https://vuldb.com/?id.306321
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry https://vuldb.com/?submit.557110

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