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Advisory record · GHSA-j288-q9x7-2f5v

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

CVSS 6.5 MediumEPSS 0.026 · 85th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 11 Jul 2025, 15:31 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.apache.commons:commons-lang3Maven>=3.0, <3.18.03.18.0
commons-lang:commons-langMaven>=2.0, <=2.6No fixed version yet
Identifiers
GHSA-j288-q9x7-2f5v · CVE-2025-48924
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-674
Tags
Published
11 Jul 2025
Updated
10 Sept 2026

Machine-written summary

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

Apache Commons Lang versions commons-lang3 3.0 to before 3.18.0 and commons-lang 2.0 to 2.6 are vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion. Very long inputs to ClassUtils.getClass can cause a StackOverflowError, which may stop an application. Upgrade commons-lang3 to 3.18.0; no fixed version is listed for commons-lang 2.x.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
6.5 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N GitHub Advisory Database
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.026, the 85th percentile, on 13 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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