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: 5.3 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-14969
CWE-ID: CWE-772
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 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.


Affected software

Hibernate Reactive
Enterprise Build of Quarkus

How to mitigate CVE-2025-14969

Install updates from vendor's website.

Hibernate Reactive - update to 4.2.1
Enterprise Build of Quarkus - update to 3.27.2

External References

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