PMD prior 7.10.0 net.sourceforge.pmd information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in PMD and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component net.sourceforge.pmd. Such manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-23215. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in PMD. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component net.sourceforge.pmd. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

PMD is an extensible multilanguage static code analyzer. The passphrase for the PMD and PMD Designer release signing keys are included in jar published to Maven Central. The private key itself is not known to have been compromised itself, but given its passphrase is, it must also be considered potentially compromised. As a mitigation, both compromised keys have been revoked so that no future use of the keys are possible. Note, that the published artifacts in Maven Central under the group id net.sourceforge.pmd are not compromised and the signatures are valid.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-23215 since 01/13/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

Upgrading to version 7.10.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 1548f5f27ba2981b890827fecbd0612fa70a0362 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• PMD

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• open-source

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• Product: https://github.com/pmd/pmd/

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