CWE-228

Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles input that is not syntactically well-formed with respect to the associated specification.

CVE-2025-2529 (GCVE-0-2025-2529)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-15 15:29
Modified
2025-10-16 13:30
CWE
  • CWE-228 - Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM Terracotta Version: 10.15.0    10.15.0 IF23
Version: 11.1.0    11.1.0 IF5
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:terracotta:10.15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:terracotta:10.15.0:ifix23:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:terracotta:11.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:terracotta:11.1.0:ifix5:*:*:*:*:*:*
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