GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-cc84-q3v3-mhgf XWiki's REST APIs don't enforce any limits, leading to unavailability and OOM in large wikis

HIGH Published 2025-12-10 Modified 2025-12-11 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-66473
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weaknesses
CWE-770
Reviewed
2025-12-10

Affected packages

• Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server: < 16.10.11 → fixed in 16.10.11 • Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server: >= 17.0.0-rc-1, < 17.4.4 → fixed in 17.4.4 • Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-rest-server: >= 17.5.0-rc-1, < 17.7.0-rc-1 → fixed in 17.7.0-rc-1

Description

Impact XWiki's REST API doesn't enforce any limits for the number of items that can be requested in a single request at the moment. Depending on the number of pages in the wiki and the memory configuration, this can lead to slowness and unavailability of the wiki. As an example, the `/rest/wikis/xwiki/spaces` resource returns all spaces on the wiki by default, which are basically all pages. Patches XWiki 17.7.0RC1, 17.4.4 and 16.10.11 introduce a configurable limit, limiting responses to 1000 items by default. Requesting larger limits leads to an error now. Workarounds We're not aware of any workaround, except denying access to the affected REST resources in a proxy in front of XWiki.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-66473 XWiki is an open-source wiki software platform. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References