Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command in Apache bRPC - CVE-2025-60021
Published: January 16, 2026 / Updated: February 6, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU121614
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-60021
CWE-ID: CWE-88
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary OS commands on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation within the bRPC heap profiler built-in service (/pprof/heap). A remote user can pass specially crafted input via the extra_options parameter and executes it as a command-line argument.
Affected software
Apache bRPC
How to mitigate CVE-2025-60021
Install updates from vendor's website.
Apache bRPC - update to 1.15.0