CVE-2025-48924

Publication date 11 July 2025

Last updated 18 January 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libcommons-lang3-java	26.04 LTS resolute	Not affected
	25.10 questing	Vulnerable
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of ESM support, was needed
	14.04 LTS trusty	Vulnerable
libcommons-lang-java	26.04 LTS resolute	Not affected
	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage
	14.04 LTS trusty	Vulnerable

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
libcommons-lang3-java	Upstream: b424803

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-8364-1
Apache Commons Lang vulnerability
2 June 2026