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Apache Struts multipart request processing disk exhaustion DoS

IdentifiersCVE-2025-66675CWE-459· Incomplete Cleanup

CVE-2025-66675 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in Apache Struts caused by incomplete cleanup of temporary files created during multipart/form-data request processing. A file leak in the multipart handling path allows temporary upload artifacts to accumulate on disk instead of being properly removed, eventually exhausting available storage. The issue affects Apache Struts versions 2.0.0 through 6.7.4 and 7.0.0 through 7.0.3. The advisory notes this CVE is related to CVE-2025-64775 and specifically corrects the affected version range to include 6.7.4.

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Successful exploitation can exhaust disk space on the target server, causing denial of service. As storage is consumed, affected Struts applications may stop responding, fail to process requests, crash, or destabilize the underlying host. The primary impact is loss of availability for applications handling multipart requests, with potential operational disruption to co-hosted services if they share the same filesystem or temporary storage.

Mitigation

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If immediate upgrade is not possible, reduce exposure by restricting or disabling multipart/file-upload functionality where not required, isolating the temporary storage used for upload processing, monitoring disk consumption and temp directories for abnormal growth, and applying request throttling or rate limiting to endpoints that accept multipart/form-data. These measures are compensating controls only and do not fully remediate the flaw.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade Apache Struts to a fixed release: 6.8.0 or 7.1.1. Organizations running affected versions in the ranges 2.0.0 through 6.7.4 and 7.0.0 through 7.0.3 should prioritize patching, including deployments on 6.7.4 that were omitted from the related CVE-2025-64775 coverage.
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