Medium (4.3). EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in commons-io:commons-io 2.14.0.
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Apache Commons IO.
The org.apache.commons.io.input.XmlStreamReader class may excessively consume CPU resources when processing maliciously crafted input.
This issue affects Apache Commons IO: from 2.0 before 2.14.0.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.14.0 or later, which fixes the issue.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
4.3 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS
1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 70% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)