# Apereo CAS has inefficient regular expression complexity

Advisory record · `GHSA-mvwq-hcrj-f5x9`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-mvwq-hcrj-f5x9` · `CVE-2025-3986`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 5.3 Medium
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-400](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html) · [CWE-1333](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1333.html)
- **Tags:** [Denial of service](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/dos.md)
- **Published:** 27 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 28 Apr 2025
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

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.

## Affected packages

- `org.apereo.cas:cas-server-core-configuration-metadata-repository` (Maven): affected `<=5.2.6`; no fixed version yet

## Machine-written summary

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

> Apereo CAS versions up to 5.2.6, specifically the org.apereo.cas:cas-server-core-configuration-metadata-repository package, are affected by an inefficient regular expression complexity issue. A remote attacker can trigger it by supplying a crafted Name argument, which can cause excessive resource use. The source gives few details, and no fixed version is listed.

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

- 5.3 Medium, CVSS 4.0: `CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`, from CNA (VulDB)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0065, the 51st percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 15:11 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 15:11 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mvwq-hcrj-f5x9)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-mvwq-hcrj-f5x9](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mvwq-hcrj-f5x9)
- [OSV: GHSA-mvwq-hcrj-f5x9](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mvwq-hcrj-f5x9)
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-3986>
- <https://github.com/apereo/cas>
- <https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.306322>
- <https://vuldb.com/?id.306322>
- <https://vuldb.com/?submit.557473>
- <https://wx.mail.qq.com/s?k=rk-m8GwRMVMcOjBY1a>

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

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- 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-mvwq-hcrj-f5x9>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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