ALAS2-2025-2927


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2-2025-2927
Advisory Released Date: 2025-07-10
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-07-10
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

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. (CVE-2024-47554)


Affected Packages:

apache-commons-io


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update apache-commons-io to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    apache-commons-io-2.4-12.amzn2.0.2.noarch
    apache-commons-io-javadoc-2.4-12.amzn2.0.2.noarch

src:
    apache-commons-io-2.4-12.amzn2.0.2.src