CVE-2025-23184

A potential denial of service vulnerability is present in versions of Apache CXF before 3.5.10, 3.6.5 and 4.0.6. In some edge cases, the CachedOutputStream instances may not be closed and, if backed by temporary files, may fill up the file system (it applies to servers and clients).

• cvssV3: HIGH, score: 7.5

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/20/3

• https://lists.apache.org/thread/lfs8l63rnctnj2skfrxyys7v8fgnt122

Affected submodules

• cxf-rt-ws-policy

• cxf-rt-ws-addr

• cxf-rt-transports-http

• cxf-rt-frontend-simple

• cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws

• cxf-rt-databinding-jaxb

• cxf-rt-bindings-xml

• cxf-rt-bindings-soap

All of them are reported twice in our security job – version 4.0.5 in worker and version 3.6.4 in cloveretl.initiate.engine.