CVE-2025-53192 Apache Commons OGNL: Expression Injection leading to RCE

What is CVE-2025-53192?

CVE-2025-53192 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Apache Commons OGNL, published on 18 Aug 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** Improper Neutralization of Expression/Command Delimiters vulnerability in Apache Commons OGNL.

This issue affects Apache Commons OGNL: all versions.

When using the API Ognl.getValue​, the OGNL engine parses and evaluates the provided expression with powerful capabilities, including accessing and invoking related methods, etc. Although OgnlRuntime attempts to restrict certain dangerous classes and methods (such as java.lang.Runtime) through a blocklist, these restrictions are not comprehensive. Attackers may be able to bypass the restrictions by leveraging class objects that are not covered by the blocklist and potentially achieve arbitrary code execution.

As this project is retired, we do not plan to release a version that fixes this issue. Users are recommended to find an alternative or restrict access to the instance to trusted users.

NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

Weakness: CWE-146

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-53192?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Commons Ognl.

How do I fix CVE-2025-53192?

Product is end of life, replace it.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2025-53192 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-53192 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2025-53192, GHSA-5vgh-76mj-8hcq, SUSE-SU-2025:03285-1, SUSE-SU-2025:3825-1, SUSE-SU-2025:3839-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-53192 and 2 more.