CVE-2025-5253 DoS in Kron Technologies' Kron PAM
Medium 6.5
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-5253 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2025-5253 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kron PAM, published on 25 Jul 2025.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5253 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Kron PAM. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5253/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5253/index.md)
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-5253?
CVE-2025-5253 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kron PAM, published on 25 Jul 2025.
Official description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Kron Technologies Kron PAM allows HTTP DoS.
This issue affects Kron PAM: before 3.7.
Weakness: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-5253?
How do I fix CVE-2025-5253?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-5253 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-5253 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5253 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-cpq7-j57g-4c4c.