CVE-2025-48976: Apache Commons FileUpload: DoS via part headers

Mark Thomas <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:53:21 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.commons.user
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Affected versions:

- Apache Commons FileUpload (commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload) 1.0 
before 1.6
- Apache Commons FileUpload (org.apache.commons:commons-fileupload2) 
2.0.0-M1 before 2.0.0-M4

Description:

Allocation of resources for multipart headers with insufficient limits 
enabled a DoS vulnerability in Apache Commons FileUpload.

This issue affects Apache Commons FileUpload: from 1.0 before 1.6; from 
2.0.0-M1 before 2.0.0-M4.

Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 1.6 or 2.0.0-M4, which fix 
the issue.

Credit:

TERASOLUNA Framework Security Team of NTT DATA Group Corporation (finder)

References:

https://commons.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-48976