CVE-2025-61581 (GCVE-0-2025-61581)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-16 08:40 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:13 Unsupported When Assigned
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Apache Traffic Control: ReDoS issue in Traffic Router configuration
Summary
** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability in Apache Traffic Control.
This issue affects Apache Traffic Control: all versions.
People with access to the management interface of the Traffic Router component could specify malicious patterns and cause unavailability.
As this project is retired, we do not plan to release a version that fixes this issue. Users are recommended to find an alternative or restrict access to the instance to trusted users.
NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-17 13:53 UTC
CWE
- CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
References
2 references
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Software Foundation | Apache Traffic Control |
Affected:
0 , < *
(semver)
|
guessed |
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