Resource exhaustion in Osc Ondemand

CVE-2025-53636

Open OnDemand is an open-source HPC portal. Users can flood logs by interacting with the shell app and generating many errors. Users who flood logs can create very large log files causing a Denial of Service (DoS) to the ondemand system. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.1.14 and 4.0.6.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (25.4th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 25th percentile — 25.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2025-53636: held from 0.003 to 0.003.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: +0.000

Affected products

  • Osc Ondemand — versions >= 1.6, < 3.1.14, >= 4.0.0-0.rc1, < 4.0.6

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-53636?
CVE-2025-53636 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Osc Ondemand, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2025-07-11.
How severe is CVE-2025-53636?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.