🛡️ CVE-2025-48924 — commons-lang

🟡 CVSS 5.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-674 NVD
5.3
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Apache Commons Lang is vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion when processing long inputs

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no 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.

Affected software

CVE-2025-48924 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • commons-lang (from 3.0 up to 3.18.0)
  • commons-lang:commons-lang (from 2.0)
  • org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 (from 3.0 up to 3.18.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 11 July 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

lists.apache.org
www.openwall.com
lists.debian.org
lists.debian.org
lists.debian.org
lists.debian.org

CVE-2025-48924 on other distributions

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE CWE-674
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-07-11
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
commons-lang 3.0 3.18.0
commons-lang:commons-lang 2.0
org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 3.0 3.18.0

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