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CVE-2026-45367 (GCVE-0-2026-45367)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-16 16:52 – Updated: 2026-07-18 03:00

Title

HAPI FHIR: ReDoS via FHIRPath matches()/replaceMatches() in FHIR Validator HTTP Endpoint

Summary

HAPI FHIR is a complete implementation of the HL7 FHIR standard for healthcare interoperability in Java. Prior to 6.9.7, the FHIRPathEngine implementation passes user-controlled regular expressions from matches(), matchesFull(), and replaceMatches() to Java regex operations without effective timeouts, allowing catastrophic backtracking and denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 6.9.7.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-07-18 02:59 UTC

CWE

CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7900 records in the last 180 days details

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/sec…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/pull/2403	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/pull/2463	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/com…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/com…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/rel…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
hapifhir	org.hl7.fhir.core	Affected: < 6.9.7	guessed

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FKIE_CVE-2026-45367

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-16 17:16 - Updated: 2026-10-24 20:10

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

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	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/releases/tag/6.9.7
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/security/advisories/GHSA-3653-68v6-rq57

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-3653-68V6-RQ57

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-18 20:23 – Updated: 2026-05-18 20:23

Summary

HAPI FHIR: ReDoS via FHIRPath matches()/replaceMatches() in FHIR Validator HTTP Endpoint

Details

Summary

All implementations of FHIRPathEngine accept arbitrary FHIRPath expressions and evaluate them without input validation. The FHIRPath functions matches(), matchesFull(), and replaceMatches() pass user-controlled regular expressions directly to Java's Pattern.compile() and String.replaceAll() without complexity checks or timeouts. An attacker can send a resource containing an evil regex pattern that causes catastrophic backtracking, exhausting system resources, and causing Denial-of-Service.

Details

The vulnerability exists in regex execution in FHIRPathEngine implementations across multiple code modules. For example the org.hl7.fhir.r5 module:

Entry point 1 — FHIRPathEngine.java:5929 (R5 funcMatches):

private List<Base> funcMatches(ExecutionContext context, List<Base> focus, ExpressionNode exp) {
    String sw = convertToString(swb); // attacker-controlled regex pattern
    // ...
    Pattern p = Pattern.compile("(?s)" + sw); // VULNERABLE: no complexity check
    Matcher m = p.matcher(st);                // no timeout
    boolean ok = m.find();

Entry point 2 — FHIRPathEngine.java:5951 (R5 funcMatchesFull):

Pattern p = Pattern.compile("(?s)" + sw); // VULNERABLE: same pattern
Matcher m = p.matcher(st);
boolean ok = m.matches();

Entry point 3 — FHIRPathEngine.java:5120 (R5 funcReplaceMatches):

result.add(new StringType(convertToString(focus.get(0))
    .replaceAll(regex, repl)).noExtensions()); // VULNERABLE: replaceAll uses Pattern internally

The same vulnerabilities exist in the dstu2, dstu2016may, dstu3, r4, and r4b modules, and the FHIRPathEngine is used in the validation module functionality.

Why this is exploitable: - No timeout mechanism covers FHIRPath evaluation — the ValidationTimeout class only protects InstanceValidator operations, not evaluateFhirPath() - Java's Pattern.compile() with a pattern like (a+)+$ against input "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" causes exponential backtracking (O(2^n) time complexity)

Impact

CPU Exhaustion: The exponential backtracking in Java's regex engine consumes 100% of a CPU core for the duration of the hang (effectively infinite for sufficiently long input strings) for callers of FHIRPathEngine.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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