Resource exhaustion in Fulcio - CVE-2025-66506

 

Resource exhaustion in Fulcio - CVE-2025-66506

Published: December 16, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU119999
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-66506
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the identity.extractIssuerURL() function when parsing untrusted arguments. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted request with a malicious OIDC identity token to trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Fulcio
watsonx.data
watsonx.data integration
OpenShift Pipelines
AI Inference Server Model Optimization Tools
AI Inference Server

How to mitigate CVE-2025-66506

Install updates from vendor's website.

Fulcio - update to 1.8.3
watsonx.data - update to 2.3.1
watsonx.data integration - update to 5.3.1
OpenShift Pipelines - update to 0.21.0
AI Inference Server Model Optimization Tools - update to 3.2.5
AI Inference Server - update to 3.2.5

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