# CVE-2025-5342: Denial of Service (DoS)

> Attackers can cause denial of service in ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus via ReDoS in the search module.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 30 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 30 Oct 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-xq93-2hg3-rpjx

## What is CVE-2025-5342?

CVE-2025-5342 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Zohocorp ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus, published on 30 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Zohocorp ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus through 5721 are vulnerable to ReDOS vulnerability in the search module.

Weakness: CWE-1333 (Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity), CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-5342?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Zohocorp Manageengine Exchange Reporter Plus.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-5342?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-5342 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-5342 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5342 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Zohocorp ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus

- [CVE-2025-3835](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3835/): Remote Code Execution (critical 9.6)
- [CVE-2024-9459](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9459/): SQL Injection (high 8.3)
- [CVE-2024-6204](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6204/): SQL injection (high 8.3)
- [CVE-2024-38871](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38871/): SQL Injection (high 8.3)
- [CVE-2024-38872](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-38872/): SQL Injection (high 8.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-5342 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-5342 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Zohocorp ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus, published on 30 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5342 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Zohocorp ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus. 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-2025-5342/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5342/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5342
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5342
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-5342

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5342/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.