CVE-2025-35036

Description

Hibernate Validator before 6.2.0 and 7.0.0, by default and depending how it is used, may interpolate user-supplied input in a constraint violation message with Expression Language. This could allow an attacker to access sensitive information or execute arbitrary Java code. Hibernate Validator as of 6.2.0 and 7.0.0 no longer interpolates custom constraint violation messages with Expression Language and strongly recommends not allowing user-supplied input in constraint violation messages. CVE-2020-5245 and CVE-2025-4428 are examples of related, downstream vulnerabilities involving Expression Language intepolation of user-supplied data.

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4428

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-5245

https://labs.watchtowr.com/expression-payloads-meet-mayhem-cve-2025-4427-and-cve-2025-4428/

https://in.relation.to/2021/01/06/hibernate-validator-700-62-final-released/#expression-language

https://hibernate.org/validator/documentation/migration-guide/#6-2-0-cr1

https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HV-1816

https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-validator/pull/1138

https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-validator/compare/6.1.7.Final...6.2.0.Final

https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-validator/commit/e076293b0ee1bfa97b6e67d05ad9eee1ad77e893

https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-validator/commit/d2db40b9e7d22c7a0b44d7665242dfc7b4d14d78

https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-validator/commit/254858d9dcc4e7cd775d1b0f47f482218077c5e1

https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-validator/commit/05f795bb7cf18856004f40e5042709e550ed0d6e

https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/validator/reference/en-US/html_single/#section-hibernateconstraintvalidatorcontext

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

CVSS v4

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