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CVE-2025-60021

Remote command injection vulnerability in heap profiler builtin service in Apache bRPC ((all versions 1.15.0)) on all platforms allows attacker to inject remote command. Root Cause: The bRPC heap profiler built-in service (/pprof/heap) does not validate the user-provided extra_options parameter and executes it as a command-line argument. Attackers can execute remote commands using the extra_options parameter.. Affected scenarios: Use the built-in bRPC heap profiler service to perform jemalloc memory profiling. How to Fix: we provide two methods, you can choose one of them: 1. Upgrade bRPC to…

Scores

9.8
CVSS 9.8 out of 10, critical severity.
25.5%
EPSS 25.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The facts

Published
16 January 2026
Last changed
17 June 2026
NVD status
Analyzed
Severity
Critical, CVSS 9.8 out of 10 (version 3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
Affects
  • apache brpc
Known exploited
Not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue in this build.
EPSS
25.5% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days (percentile 98).

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