GHSA-2p5w-cvg5-gc5c — hibernate-core
HIGHGHSA-2p5w-cvg5-gc5c is a high-severity (CVSS 8.3) SQL Injection vulnerability in org.hibernate:hibernate-core. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
Hibernate vulnerable to SQL Injection
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-2p5w-cvg5-gc5c.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-2p5w-cvg5-gc5c plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 377,636 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
org.hibernate:hibernate-coreReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Maven packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
A flaw was found in Hibernate. A remote attacker with low privileges could exploit a second-order SQL injection vulnerability by providing specially crafted, unsanitized non-alphanumeric characters in the ID column when the InlineIdsOrClauseBuilder is used. This could lead to sensitive information disclosure, such as reading system files, and allow for data manipulation or deletion within the application's database, resulting in an application level denial of service.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☕Maven | org.hibernate:hibernate-core | ≥ 5.2.8 | No fix |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for org.hibernate:hibernate-core, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Remediation status
No patched version of org.hibernate:hibernate-core has shipped for GHSA-2p5w-cvg5-gc5c yet. Where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range, and apply any maintainer-recommended mitigation.
Mitigate without a patch
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like GHSA-2p5w-cvg5-gc5c can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to GHSA-2p5w-cvg5-gc5c. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
This vulnerability is rated Important for Red Hat products as it allows a remote attacker with low privileges to perform second-order SQL injection in applications using Hibernate's InlineIdsOrClauseBuilder with unsanitized non-alphanumeric characters in the ID column. This could lead to sensitive information…
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7 | eap7-hibernate-0:5.1.17-4.Final_redhat_00005.1.ep7.el7 | RHSA-2026:6012 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7 | eap7-hibernate-0:5.3.38-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap | RHSA-2026:6011 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.24 | org.hibernate/hibernate-core:5.3.38.Final-redhat-00001 | RHSA-2026:4924 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 ELS on RHEL 7 | eap7-hibernate-0:5.3.38-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap | RHSA-2026:4915 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 ELS on RHEL 8 | eap7-hibernate-0:5.3.38-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap | RHSA-2026:4916 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 ELS on RHEL 9 | eap7-hibernate-0:5.3.38-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap | RHSA-2026:4917 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GHSA-2p5w-cvg5-gc5c in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds GHSA-2p5w-cvg5-gc5c across Maven dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.