CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-61581

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.74%

53th percentile - higher than 53% of all known CVEs

Summary

An inefficient regular expression complexity (ReDoS) vulnerability has been found in Apache Traffic Control. People with access to the management interface of the Traffic Router component could specify malicious patterns and cause unavailability. The project is retired and no fix is planned.

Risk Assessment

An attacker with access to the management interface could cause a denial of service (DoS), making Traffic Router unavailable. Since the project is retired, no official patches will be released.

Recommendation

Restrict access to the Traffic Router management interface to trusted users only or find an alternative solution, as the project is no longer supported. Consider migrating to a supported product.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

** 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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS