Resource exhaustion in Confluence Data Center - CVE-2025-22166

 

Resource exhaustion in Confluence Data Center - CVE-2025-22166

Published: October 29, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU117773
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-22166
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote user can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Confluence Data Center

How to mitigate CVE-2025-22166

Install updates from vendor's website.

Confluence Data Center - addressed in versions 8.5.25, 9.2.7, 9.5.2, 10.0.2

External References

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