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Message-ID: <c64ede75-0fa8-213b-7f4b-24a7249fbfb2@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:25:52 +0000
From: "Gary D. Gregory" <ggregory@...che.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE-2025-48924: Apache Commons Lang:
 ClassUtils.getClass(...) can throw a StackOverflowError on very long
 inputs 

Severity: low 

Affected versions:

- Apache Commons Lang (commons-lang:commons-lang) 2.0 through 2.6
- Apache Commons Lang (org.apache.commons:commons-lang3) 3.0 before 3.18.0

Description:

Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in Apache Commons Lang.

This issue affects Apache Commons Lang: Starting with commons-lang:commons-lang 2.0 to 2.6, and, from org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 3.0 before 3.18.0.

The methods ClassUtils.getClass(...) can throw StackOverflowError on very long inputs. Because an Error is usually not handled by applications and libraries, a 
StackOverflowError could cause an application to stop.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.18.0, which fixes the issue.

Credit:

OSS-Fuzz Issue 42522972 (finder)

References:

https://commons.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-48924

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