CVE-2025-2529 (GCVE-0-2025-2529)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-15 15:29 – Updated: 2025-10-16 13:30
VLAI
Title
IBM Terracotta denial of service
Summary
Applications using affected versions of Ehcache 3.x can experience degraded cache-write performance if the application using Ehcache utilizes keys sourced from (malicious) external parties in an unfiltered/unsalted way.
Severity
2.9 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-16 13:30 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-228 - Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure
Assigner
ibm CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 88/100 over 1242 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7247977 vendor-advisorypatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
IBM Terracotta Affected: 10.15.0 , ≤ 10.15.0 IF23 (semver)
Affected: 11.1.0 , ≤ 11.1.0 IF5 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:terracotta:10.15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:terracotta:11.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:terracotta:11.1.0:ifix5:*:*:*:*:*:*
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