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SCA: security update for commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils, org.apache.commons:commons-beanutils2 (GHSA-wxr5-93ph-8wr9)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 428717

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Improper Access Control vulnerability in Apache Commons. A special BeanIntrospector class was added in
 version 1.9.2. This can be used to stop attackers from using the declared class property of Java enum
 objects to get access to the classloader. However this protection was not enabled by default.
 PropertyUtilsBean (and consequently BeanUtilsBean) now disallows declared class level property access by
 default. Releases 1.11.0 and 2.0.0-M2 address a potential security issue when accessing enum properties in
 an uncontrolled way. If an application using Commons BeanUtils passes property paths from an external
 source directly to the getProperty() method of PropertyUtilsBean, an attacker can access the enum’s class
 loader via the “declaredClass” property available on all Java “enum” objects. Accessing the enum’s
 “declaredClass” allows remote attackers to access the ClassLoader and execute arbitrary code. The same
 issue exists with PropertyUtilsBean.getNestedProperty(). Starting in versions 1.11.0 and 2.0.0-M2 a
 special BeanIntrospector suppresses the “declaredClass” property. Note that this new BeanIntrospector is
 enabled by default, but you can disable it to regain the old behavior; see section 2.5 of the user's guide
 and the unit tests. This issue affects Apache Commons BeanUtils 1.x before 1.11.0, and 2.x before
 2.0.0-M2.Users of the artifact commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils 1.x are recommended to upgrade to
 version 1.11.0, which fixes the issue. Users of the artifact org.apache.commons:commons-beanutils2 2.x are
 recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.0-M2, which fixes the issue. (CVE-2025-48734)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wxr5-93ph-8wr9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 428717

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/4/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.98

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-48734

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/28/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-48734

cwe: CWE-284