Observability

Why SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted is not affected by CVE-2025-48924

This article explains why SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted is not affected by CVE-2025-48924.

First published date

6/10/2026 3:20 PM

Last published date

6/10/2026 3:20 PM

Overview

In 2025, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a security bulletin about NVD - CVE-2025-48924.

Product section

Hybrid Cloud Observability

Cause

CVE-2025-48924 is an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in Apache Commons Lang. This issue affects Apache Commons Lang: starting from commons-lang:commons-lang 2.0 to 2.6, and from org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 3.0 to 3.18.0. The method ClassUtils.getClass(...) can throw a StackOverflowError on very long inputs. Because errors are usually not handled by applications and libraries, a StackOverflowError could cause an application to stop.

Resolution

SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted is not impacted by CVE-2025-48924.

Although the product includes a version of Apache Commons Lang containing the reported uncontrolled recursion issue, the vulnerable code path is not reachable within the product implementation.

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