Resource exhaustion in Rhino - CVE-2025-66453

 

Resource exhaustion in Rhino - CVE-2025-66453

Published: March 11, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU123883
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-66453
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. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Rhino
Oracle REST Data Services
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
Basesystem Module
openSUSE Leap
IBM UrbanCode Release
DevOps
webMethods BPM
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced with IBM
rhino
rhino-runtime
rhino-demo
rhino-javadoc
rhino-engine
IBM FileNet Content Manager

How to mitigate CVE-2025-66453

Install updates from vendor's website.

Rhino - addressed in versions 1.7.14.1, 1.7.15.1, 1.8.1
DevOps - update to 7.0.0.6
webMethods BPM - update to 11.1 Fix 2
rhino - update to 1.7.15.1-150200.12.7.1
rhino-runtime - update to 1.7.15.1-150200.12.7.1
rhino-demo - update to 1.7.15.1-150200.12.7.1
rhino-javadoc - update to 1.7.15.1-150200.12.7.1
rhino-engine - update to 1.7.15.1-150200.12.7.1
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced with IBM - update to 1.16.0
IBM FileNet Content Manager - addressed in versions 5.5.12.0 IF007, 5.6.0.0 IF006, 5.7.0.0 IF003

External References

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