CVE-2025-58782: Apache Jackrabbit Core, Apache Jackrabbit JCR Commons: JNDI injection risk with JndiRepositoryFactory

[Marcel Reutegger <mreutegg () apache org>]

Severity: important 

Affected versions:

- Apache Jackrabbit Core (org.apache.jackrabbit:jackrabbit-core) 1.0.0 through 2.22.1
- Apache Jackrabbit JCR Commons (org.apache.jackrabbit:jackrabbit-jcr-commons) 1.0.0 through 2.22.1

Description:

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Apache Jackrabbit Core and Apache Jackrabbit JCR Commons.

This issue affects Apache Jackrabbit Core: from 1.0.0 through 2.22.1; Apache Jackrabbit JCR Commons: from 1.0.0 through 
2.22.1.

Deployments that accept JNDI URIs for JCR lookup from untrusted users allows them to inject malicious JNDI references, 
potentially leading to arbitrary code execution through deserialization of untrusted data.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.22.2. JCR lookup through JNDI has been disabled by default in 2.22.2. 
Users of this feature need to enable it explicitly and are adviced to review their use of JNDI URI for JCR lookup.

This issue is being tracked as JCR-5135 

Credit:

James John (reporter)

References:

https://jackrabbit.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-58782
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-5135