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
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
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
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| 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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No mitigation information available for this CWE.
No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.