hibernate/hibernate-reactive · Security
Hibernate Reactive Vulnerable to DoS via Connection Pool Exhaustion
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-frpp-8pwq-hjrx
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-14969
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 4.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS v3
- 4.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Description
A flaw was found in Hibernate Reactive. When an HTTP endpoint is exposed to perform database operations, a remote client can prematurely close the HTTP connection. This action may lead to leaking connections from the database connection pool, potentially causing a Denial of Service (DoS) by exhausting available database connections.
CWEs
- CWE-772 · Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14969 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14969 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2423822 ↗
- https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-reactive/commit/cd7f104e10de918004707ca0e26e3840976f780a ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:1965 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-frpp-8pwq-hjrx ↗