CVE-2025-31119: CWE-470 in generator-jhipster-entity-audit when having Javers selected as Entity Audit Framework
Description
generator-jhipster-entity-audit is a JHipster module to enable entity audit and audit log page. Prior to 5.9.1, generator-jhipster-entity-audit allows unsafe reflection when having Javers selected as Entity Audit Framework. If an attacker manages to place some malicious classes into the classpath and also has access to these REST interface for calling the mentioned REST endpoints, using these lines of code can lead to unintended remote code execution. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.9.1.
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2025-31119
CVSS Base Severity: HIGH
CVSS Base Score: 7.7
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Problem Types
CWE-470: Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code ('Unsafe Reflection')Affected Products
Vendor: jhipster
Product: generator-jhipster-entity-audit
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.21% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 44.32% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-05-02 (when was this score calculated)
Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)
SSVC Exploitation: poc
SSVC Technical Impact: total
SSVC Automatable: false
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-31119https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster-entity-audit/security/advisories/GHSA-7rmp-3g9f-cvq8
https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster-entity-audit/blob/e21e83135d10c77d92203c89cb0b0063914e8fe0/generators/spring-boot-javers/templates/src/main/java/_package_/web/rest/JaversEntityAuditResource.java.ejs#L88