CVE-2025-61581
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Publication date: 2025-10-16
Last updated on: 2025-11-04
Assigner: Apache Software Foundation
Description
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| apache | traffic_control | to 8.0.2 (inc) |
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Exploitability
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-1333 | The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles. |
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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
This vulnerability is an Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity issue in Apache Traffic Control. It allows someone with access to the management interface of the Traffic Router component to specify malicious regular expression patterns that can cause the system to become unavailable.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
If exploited, this vulnerability can cause unavailability of the Apache Traffic Control system, potentially disrupting services that rely on it.
What immediate steps should I take to mitigate this vulnerability?
Since Apache Traffic Control is retired and no fix will be released, immediate mitigation steps include restricting access to the Traffic Router management interface to trusted users only, or migrating to an alternative supported product.