Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Hibernate Reactive - CVE-2025-14969

 

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Hibernate Reactive - CVE-2025-14969

Published: February 12, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU122774
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-14969
CWE-ID: CWE-772
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Hibernate Team
Affected software:
Hibernate Reactive

Detailed vulnerability description

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

The vulnerability exists due to a remote client can prematurely close the HTTP connection, when an HTTP endpoint is exposed to perform database operations. A remote user can leak connections from the database connection pool, potentially causing a Denial of Service (DoS) by exhausting available database connections.


How to mitigate CVE-2025-14969

Install updates from vendor's website.

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