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CVE-2026-49485

35
FAUCET Score

HAPI FHIR is a complete implementation of the HL7 FHIR standard for healthcare interoperability in Java. Prior to 6.9.9 and 6.9.4.2, all implementations of FHIRPathEngine accept arbitrary FHIRPath expressions and evaluate them without input validation, and the FHIRPath functions matches(), matchesFull(), and replaceMatches() pass user-controlled regular expressions to Java's Pattern.compile() and String.replaceAll() through an incomplete timeout utility. An attacker can send a resource containing an evil regex pattern that causes catastrophic backtracking, exhausting CPU resources and causing denial of service in the FHIR Validator HTTP endpoint and affected org.hl7.fhir.* modules. This issue is fixed in versions 6.9.9 and 6.9.4.2.

First published: Jul 17, 2026Last modified: Jul 17, 2026

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
HapifhirOrg.Hl7.Fhir.Core
< 6.9.4.2, >= 6.9.5, < 6.9.9CNA affected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 10th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (16)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.dstu2Fixed in: 6.9.9
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.dstu2016mayFixed in: 6.9.9
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.dstu3Fixed in: 6.9.9
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r4Fixed in: 6.9.9
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r4bFixed in: 6.9.9
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r5Fixed in: 6.9.9
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.validationFixed in: 6.9.9
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.validation.cliFixed in: 6.9.9
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.dstu2Fixed in: 6.9.4.2
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.dstu2016mayFixed in: 6.9.4.2
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.dstu3Fixed in: 6.9.4.2
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r4Fixed in: 6.9.4.2
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r4bFixed in: 6.9.4.2
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r5Fixed in: 6.9.4.2
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.validationFixed in: 6.9.4.2
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.validation.cliFixed in: 6.9.4.2

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-7cmj-v6x8-frvvhigh

org.hl7.fhir.core: ReDoS via FHIRPath matches()/replaceMatches() in FHIR Validator HTTP Endpoint

Jul 9, 2026

References

github.com / hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/commit/109c88837c032ef399b2eb87ddde86692065cf41
github.com / hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/commit/e08982d2b6f6dcd6c670a762d9cf999179fbe4ed
github.com / hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/pull/2463
github.com / hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/releases/tag/6.9.4.2
github.com / hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/releases/tag/6.9.9
github.com / hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/security/advisories/GHSA-7cmj-v6x8-frvv