Critical

Lucee RCE/XXE Vulnerability

  • Disclosed: 05.03.2025
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 12:21

Impact

The Lucee team received a responsible disclosure of a security vulnerability which affects all previous releases of Lucee.

After reviewing the report and confirming the vulnerability, the Lucee team then conducted a further security review and found additional vulnerabilities which have been addressed as part of this this security update.

Patches

Lucee 5.4.3.2 and 5.3.12.1 stable releases have been patched with additional hardening

The older releases, 5.3.7.59., 5.3.8.236 and 5.3.9.173 have also been patched

Any users running older release, should plan to immediately upgrade to the latest stable release

6.0 will have a RC as it's not yet released

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.lucee:lucee >= 5.3.10.79-RC, < 5.3.12.1, >= 5.4.0.65-RC, < 5.4.3.2, <= 5.3.7.59, >= 5.3.8.132-RC, < 5.3.8.236, >= 5.3.9.113, < 5.3.9.173 5.3.12.1, 5.4.3.2, 5.3.8.236, 5.3.9.173

References

CVSS score 10/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-611
Platform
Java / Kotlin (Maven)
Package
org.lucee:lucee
Disclosed
05.03.2025
Updated
11.10.2026 12:21

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-vwjx-mmwm-pwrf - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: org.lucee:lucee

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Java / Kotlin (Maven)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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