# DoS vulnerabilities persist in ESAPI file uploads despite remediation of CVE-2023-24998

Advisory record · `GHSA-7c2q-5qmr-v76q`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-7c2q-5qmr-v76q`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 7.5 High
- **Critical:** No
- **Published:** 27 Oct 2023
- **Updated:** 6 Dec 2024
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 27 Oct 2023, 21:55 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `org.owasp.esapi:esapi` (Maven): affected `<2.5.2.0`; fixed in `2.5.2.0`

## Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

> Versions of org.owasp.esapi:esapi before 2.5.2.0 are affected by a denial-of-service vulnerability in the file upload handling of HTTPUtilities.getFileUploads, which remains open in ESAPI and in Apache Commons FileUpload. The source does not give detailed attack conditions beyond the upload handling. Upgrade to ESAPI 2.5.2.0 or later, which is the listed fix, and consider a WAF or upload limits, authentication, and per-user upload quotas in application code.

Written 7 Nov 2026.

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 7.5 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`, from GitHub Advisory Database

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** No score.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 15:12 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 15:12 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-7c2q-5qmr-v76q)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-7c2q-5qmr-v76q](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7c2q-5qmr-v76q)
- [OSV: GHSA-7c2q-5qmr-v76q](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-7c2q-5qmr-v76q)
- <https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy/security/advisories/GHSA-7c2q-5qmr-v76q>
- <https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-7c2q-5qmr-v76q>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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