CVE-2025-27419 Denial of Service (DoS) in WeGIA due to Recursive Crawling of Dynamic URLs

Critical 9.2 Published Updated

Unauthenticated attackers can cause server unresponsiveness in WeGIA by triggering recursive crawling of dynamic URLs through aggressive spidering.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2025-27419?

CVE-2025-27419 is a critical denial of service vulnerability in Wegia Wegia, published on 3 Mar 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

WeGIA is an open source Web Manager for Institutions with a focus on Portuguese language users. A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in WeGIA. This vulnerability allows any unauthenticated user to cause the server to become unresponsive by performing aggressive spidering. The vulnerability is caused by recursive crawling of dynamically generated URLs and insufficient handling of large volumes of requests. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.16.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-27419?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wegia Wegia.

How do I fix CVE-2025-27419?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-27419 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2025-27419 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-27419 exists.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-9rp6-4mqp-g4p8.

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