CVE-2025-55182
CVE-2025-55182 — Meta React Server Components Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
A pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability exists in React Server Components versions 19.0.0, 19.1.0, 19.1.1, and 19.2.0 including the following packages: react-server-dom-parcel, react-server-dom-turbopack, and react-server-dom-webpack. The vulnerable code unsafely deserializes payloads from HTTP requests to Server Function endpoints.
Published Updated Sources: NVD, Meta (CNA), CISA, FIRST EPSS, Exploit-DB, Red Hat (VEX)
Triage
Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.
Exploitation
Confirmed
CISA KEV, listed Dec 5, 2025
EPSS
100%
top of FIRST's scoreset
CVSS base
10
critical
CISA SSVC assessment
Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.
Exploitation
Active
none · proof-of-concept · active
Automatable
Yes
can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps
Technical impact
Total
partial · total control of the vulnerable component
Remediation
The vendor's own words where we have them.
Upgrade react-server-dom-webpack to a fixed release. Apply vendor patches per advisory and restrict external exposure of the affected component until patched.
CISA required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Federal deadline Dec 12, 2025 — passed 275 days ago
Red Hat VEX · CVE-2025-55182
First 24 hours
Ordered from the record's own fields — exposure first, because you cannot patch what you have not found.
- Identify exposed assets running affected vendor/product/version combinations.
- Treat as emergency remediation because CISA KEV status is present.
- Search available logs for exploit probes, errors, authentication anomalies, or suspicious child processes matching the vulnerability class.
Affected scope
Vendor, product and version as the advisories word them.
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta | react-server-dom-webpack | 19.0.0 to <= 19.0.0 | Vulnerable |
| Meta | react-server-dom-webpack | 19.1.0 to <= 19.1.1 | Vulnerable |
| Meta | react-server-dom-webpack | 19.2.0 to <= 19.2.0 | Vulnerable |
| Meta | react-server-dom-turbopack | 19.0.0 to <= 19.0.0 | Vulnerable |
| Meta | react-server-dom-turbopack | 19.1.0 to <= 19.1.1 | Vulnerable |
| Meta | react-server-dom-turbopack | 19.2.0 to <= 19.2.0 | Vulnerable |
| Meta | react-server-dom-parcel | 19.0.0 to <= 19.0.0 | Vulnerable |
| Meta | react-server-dom-parcel | 19.1.0 to <= 19.1.1 | Vulnerable |
| Meta | react-server-dom-parcel | 19.2.0 to <= 19.2.0 | Vulnerable |
Attack characteristics
The CVSS vector, decoded. It describes the attack, not your exposure to it.
Availability
High
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Scope
Changed
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Vector
Network
Privileges Req
None
User Interaction
None
Every base score collected
Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.
| Score | Version | Severity | Expl. | Impact | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | CVSS 3.1 | critical | 3.9 | 6 | Meta (CNA), Red Hat (VEX) |
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness & attack patterns
- CWE-502Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Inferred from the weakness class — not observed against this CVE.
CISA KEV details
CISA lists a CVE here once it has evidence of exploitation against real targets.
Listed
Dec 5, 2025
Federal deadline
Dec 12, 2025
passed 275 days ago
Ransomware use
Known
CISA records ransomware use only for campaigns it has confirmed, so “Unknown” means unrecorded, not ruled out. The deadline binds US federal agencies; for everyone else it is a date to argue against.
Public exploit
Capability, not use: code existing is a different claim from anyone running it.
Exploit entries
1
Exploit-DB and CTI exploit indexes
Detection
Read off the CVSS vector and the weakness class. Starting points, not rules we have tested.
- Prioritize edge telemetry for network-reachable react-server-dom-webpack, react-server-dom-turbopack, react-server-dom-parcel.
- Monitor for scanner or exploit-pattern traffic after 1 public PoC repositories were reported.
Timeline
What happened to this CVE, newest first — with the readings a source repeats on a schedule counted underneath rather than listed.
- 2026
Added · CVSS 3.1 10.0 (AV:N)
Aug 4, 2026 · NVD
Added · webapps entry: React Server 19.2.0 - Remote Code Execution
Apr 9, 2026 · Exploit-DB
- 2025
Added to CISA KEV catalog
Dec 5, 2025 · CISA
Initial · CVE published
Dec 3, 2025 · NVD
References
13 on the record
- react.dev/blog/2025/12/03/critical-security-vulnerability-in-react-server-components
Patch, Vendor Advisory
- www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2025-55182
Vendor Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/12/03/4
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46136026
Issue Tracking
- aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/china-nexus-cyber-threat-groups-rapidly-exploit-react2shell-vulnerability-cve-2025-55182/
Third Party Advisory
- www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-55182
US Government Resource
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/52506
Vendor Advisory
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-55182
Vendor Advisory
Elsewhere on this site
- Metaevery CVE for this vendor
- December 2025what else CISA listed
- Deserializationsame class
- CWE-502other pages naming this weakness
Not in any source we poll
Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.
- No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
- No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
- No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.
Answered from this record1
What should defenders know first?
CVE-2025-55182 is Meta React Server Components Remote Code Execution Vulnerability, a critical vulnerability affecting react-server-dom-webpack, react-server-dom-turbopack, react-server-dom-parcel from Meta. The current evidence lists it in CISA KEV, and the exploit status is: Yes: CISA KEV signal present. Public exploit evidence is: 1 public PoC repositories reported; 0 marked weaponized in current dataset. The affected-version evidence is listed in the key facts and affected products tables. Defenders should first verify whether exposed or business-critical assets run those versions, then apply vendor patches or mitigations, restrict reachable attack surface, and preserve logs for detection review. CVSS 10 describes technical severity, while EPSS 100% helps estimate near-term exploit likelihood; neither replaces asset context. Unknown fields should remain explicit in tickets, and threat actor, IOC, victimology, or payload claims should not be added unless a cited source supports them. Monitor CISA KEV, vendor advisories, NVD changes, public PoC repositories, and internal telemetry for update triggers.