Advisory record · GHSA-8rx4-fxq5-vj4v

Apereo CAS has inefficient regular expression complexity

CVSS 5.1 MediumEPSS 0.0063 · 50th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 27 Apr 2025, 21:34 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.apereo.cas:cas-management-webapp-supportMaven<=5.2.6No fixed version yet
Identifiers
GHSA-8rx4-fxq5-vj4v · CVE-2025-3985
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-400 · CWE-1333
Published
27 Apr 2025
Updated
6 Nov 2025

Machine-written summary

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

Apereo CAS versions up to and including 5.2.6 (package org.apereo.cas:cas-management-webapp-support) contain an inefficient regular expression complexity flaw triggered by the Query argument in the management web application's service controller. A remote attacker can send crafted input to cause excessive processing time. No fixed version is listed.

Written 7 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
5.1 Medium 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CNA (VulDB)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0063, the 50th percentile, on 13 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 15:09 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 15:09 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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