CVE-2025-27636
Apache Camel: Camel Message Header Injection via Improper Filtering
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
1Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
Bypass/Injection vulnerability in Apache Camel-Bean component under particular conditions. This issue affects Apache Camel: from 4.10.0 through <= 4.10.1, from 4.8.0 through <= 4.8.4, from 3.10.0 through <= 3.22.3. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.10.2 for 4.10.x LTS, 4.8.5 for 4.8.x LTS and 3.22.4 for 3.x releases. This vulnerability is only present in the following situation. The user is using one of the following HTTP Servers via one the of the following Camel components * camel-servlet * camel-jetty * camel-undertow * camel-platform-http * camel-netty-http and in the route, the exchange will be routed to a camel-bean producer. So ONLY camel-bean component is affected. In particular: * The bean invocation (is only affected if you use any of the above together with camel-bean component). * The bean that can be called, has more than 1 method implemented.
In these conditions an attacker could be able to forge a Camel header name and make the bean component invoking other methods in the same bean. The vulnerability arises due to a bug in the default filtering mechanism that only blocks headers starting with "Camel", "camel", or "org.apache.camel.". Mitigation: You can easily work around this in your Camel applications by removing the headers in your Camel routes. There are many ways of doing this, also globally or per route. This means you could use the removeHeaders EIP, to filter out anything like "cAmel, cAMEL" etc, or in general everything not starting with "Camel", "camel" or "org.apache.camel.".
Bypass/Injection vulnerability in Apache Camel components under particular conditions. This issue affects Apache Camel: from 4.10.0 through <= 4.10.1, from 4.8.0 through <= 4.8.4, from 3.10.0 through <= 3.22.3. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.10.2 for 4.10.x LTS, 4.8.5 for 4.8.x LTS and 3.22.4 for 3.x releases. This vulnerability is present in Camel's default incoming header filter, that allows an attacker to include Camel specific headers that for some Camel components can alter the behaviours such as the camel-bean component, to call another method on the bean, than was coded in the application. In the camel-jms component, then a malicious header can be used to send the message to another queue (on the same broker) than was coded in the application. This could also be seen by using the camel-exec component The attacker would need to inject custom headers, such as HTTP protocols. So if you have Camel applications that are directly connected to the internet via HTTP, then an attacker could include malicious HTTP headers in the HTTP requests that are send to the Camel application. All the known Camel HTTP component such as camel-servlet, camel-jetty, camel-undertow, camel-platform-http, and camel-netty-http would be vulnerable out of the box. In these conditions an attacker could be able to forge a Camel header name and make the bean component invoking other methods in the same bean. In terms of usage of the default header filter strategy the list of components using that is: * camel-activemq * camel-activemq6 * camel-amqp * camel-aws2-sqs * camel-azure-servicebus * camel-cxf-rest * camel-cxf-soap * camel-http * camel-jetty * camel-jms * camel-kafka * camel-knative * camel-mail * camel-nats * camel-netty-http * camel-platform-http * camel-rest * camel-sjms * camel-spring-rabbitmq * camel-stomp * camel-tahu * camel-undertow * camel-xmpp The vulnerability arises due to a bug in the default filtering mechanism that only blocks headers starting with "Camel", "camel", or "org.apache.camel.". Mitigation: You can easily work around this in your Camel applications by removing the headers in your Camel routes. There are many ways of doing this, also globally or per route. This means you could use the removeHeaders EIP, to filter out anything like "cAmel, cAMEL" etc, or in general everything not starting with "Camel", "camel" or "org.apache.camel.".
A vulnerability was found in Apache Camel. This flaw allows an attacker to bypass filtering via a specially crafted request containing a certain combination of upper and lower case characters due to an issue in the default header filtering mechanism, which blocks headers starting with "Camel" or "camel."
Bypass/Injection vulnerability in Apache Camel components under particular conditions. This issue affects Apache Camel: from 4.10.0 through <= 4.10.1, from 4.8.0 through <= 4.8.4, from 3.10.0 through <= 3.22.3. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.10.2 for 4.10.x LTS, 4.8.5 for 4.8.x LTS and 3.22.4 for 3.x releases. This vulnerability is present in Camel's default incoming header filter, that allows an attacker to include Camel specific headers that for some Camel components can alter the behaviours such as the camel-bean component, to call another method on the bean, than was coded in the application. In the camel-jms component, then a mallicous header can be used to send the message to another queue (on the same broker) than was coded in the application. The attacker would need to inject custom headers, such as HTTP protocols. So if you have Camel applications that are directly connected to the internet via HTTP, then an attacker could include malicious HTTP headers in the HTTP requests that are send to the Camel application. All the known Camel HTTP component such as camel-servlet, camel-jetty, camel-undertow, camel-platform-http, and camel-netty-http would be vulnerable out of the box. In these conditions an attacker could be able to forge a Camel header name and make the bean component invoking other methods in the same bean. In terms of usage of the default header filter strategy the list of components using that is: * camel-activemq * camel-activemq6 * camel-amqp * camel-aws2-sqs * camel-azure-servicebus * camel-cxf-rest * camel-cxf-soap * camel-http * camel-jetty * camel-jms * camel-kafka * camel-knative * camel-mail * camel-nats * camel-netty-http * camel-platform-http * camel-rest * camel-sjms * camel-spring-rabbitmq * camel-stomp * camel-tahu * camel-undertow * camel-xmpp The vulnerability arises due to a bug in the default filtering mechanism that only blocks headers starting with "Camel", "camel", or "org.apache.camel.". Mitigation: You can easily work around this in your Camel applications by removing the headers in your Camel routes. There are many ways of doing this, also globally or per route. This means you could use the removeHeaders EIP, to filter out anything like "cAmel, cAMEL" etc, or in general everything not starting with "Camel", "camel" or "org.apache.camel.".
An update for Red Hat Build of Apache Camel 4.8 for Quarkus 3.15 update is now available. The purpose of this text-only errata is to inform you about the enhancements that improve your developer experience and ensure the security and stability of your products. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:Track*
Timeline
- 2025-03-04 CVE Reserved
- 2025-03-09 CVE Published
- 2025-03-13 First Exploit
- 2025-03-17 CVE Updated
- 2025-04-03 EPSS Updated
- ---------- Exploited in Wild
- ---------- KEV Due Date
CWE
- CWE-178: Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity
- CWE-644: Improper Neutralization of HTTP Headers for Scripting Syntax
CAPEC
References (7)
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/03/09/1 |
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https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-21828 | Issue Tracking |
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https://github.com/akamai/CVE-2025-27636-Apache-Camel-PoC | 2025-03-13 |
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https://lists.apache.org/thread/l3zcg3vts88bmc7w8172wkgw610y693z | 2025-03-09 | |
https://camel.apache.org/security/CVE-2025-27636.html | 2025-03-17 | |
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-27636 | 2025-04-02 | |
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2350682 | 2025-04-02 |
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Apache Software Foundation Search vendor "Apache Software Foundation" | Apache Camel Search vendor "Apache Software Foundation" for product "Apache Camel" | >= 4.10.0 < 4.10.2 Search vendor "Apache Software Foundation" for product "Apache Camel" and version " >= 4.10.0 < 4.10.2" | en |
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Apache Software Foundation Search vendor "Apache Software Foundation" | Apache Camel Search vendor "Apache Software Foundation" for product "Apache Camel" | >= 4.8.0 < 4.8.5 Search vendor "Apache Software Foundation" for product "Apache Camel" and version " >= 4.8.0 < 4.8.5" | en |
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Apache Software Foundation Search vendor "Apache Software Foundation" | Apache Camel Search vendor "Apache Software Foundation" for product "Apache Camel" | >= 3.10.0 < 3.22.4 Search vendor "Apache Software Foundation" for product "Apache Camel" and version " >= 3.10.0 < 3.22.4" | en |
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