CVE-2025-48924

Publication date 11 July 2025

Last updated 5 June 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	Fixed 3.14.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 3.11-1ubuntu0.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 3.8-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 3.8-1~18.04.2+esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of ESM support, was needed
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 3.2.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
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	Fixed 2.6-10ubuntu0.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2.6-9ubuntu0.22.04.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.6-9ubuntu0.20.04.1~esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.6-8ubuntu0.1~esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.6-3ubuntu2+esm1

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Patch details

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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