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CVE-2023-51079

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-51079 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in MVEL 2.5.0.Final, where the ParseTools.subCompileExpression method can experience a long execution time due to numerous Java class lookups. This issue has a CVSS score of 5.3 (Medium), indicating it can be exploited over the network with low attack complexity, leading to a low impact on availability. Despite the vendor disputing its classification as a vulnerability, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mvel:mvel:2.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.74%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0074 is in the 32nd percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4.4.1 for Spring Boot 3.2Fixed in: mvel
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-h63j-xqx6-w58rmedium

mvel2 TimeOut error exists in the ParseTools.subCompileExpression method

Dec 27, 2023
redhatCVE-2023-51079Moderate

mvel: TimeOut error when calling ParseTools.subCompileExpression() function

Dec 27, 2023

References

github.com / mvel/mvel/issues/348
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / mvel/mvel/issues/348