CWE-462
Duplicate Key in Associative List (Alist)
Duplicate keys in associative lists can lead to non-unique keys being mistaken for an error.
CVE-2025-21085 (GCVE-0-2025-21085)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-15 14:25
Modified
2025-06-16 18:08
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-462 - Duplicate Key in Associative List
Summary
PingFederate OAuth2 grant duplication in PostgreSQL persistent storage allows OAuth2 requests to use excessive memory utilization.
References
Impacted products
Vendor | Product | Version | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Ping Identity | PingFederate |
Version: 12.2.0 < 12.2.4 Version: 12.1.0 < 12.1.9 Version: 12.0 < 12.0.9 Version: 11.3.0 < 11.3.13 |
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Mitigation
Phase: Architecture and Design
Description:
- Use a hash table instead of an alist.
Mitigation
Phase: Architecture and Design
Description:
- Use an alist which checks the uniqueness of hash keys with each entry before inserting the entry.
No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.