A flaw was found in Hibernate Validator starting with version 5.4.1. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by submitting specially crafted input containing unescaped message parameters. Improper escaping allows user-supplied data to be re-evaluated during Expression Language (EL) processing, leading to excessive resource consumption and application unresponsiveness.

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Description A flaw was found in Hibernate Validator starting with version 5.4.1. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by submitting specially crafted input containing unescaped message parameters. Improper escaping allows user-supplied data to be re-evaluated during Expression Language (EL) processing, leading to excessive resource consumption and application unresponsiveness.
Title org.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validator: Hibernate Validator - unescaped {duplicates} message parameter is re-evaluated as Expression Language (unauthenticated DoS)
Weaknesses CWE-400
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{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-10-12T16:18:43Z

Links: CVE-2026-93879 - Bugzilla

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Updated: 2026-10-13T01:45:17Z

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