HAPI FHIR is a complete implementation of the HL7 FHIR standard for healthcare interoperability in Java. Prior to 6.9.10, the fix for CVE-2026-45367 incompletely patched the DSTU2 module, leaving FHIRPathEngine.matches() in org.hl7.fhir.dstu2/utils/FHIRPathEngine.java to call raw String.matches(sw) without RegexTimeout protection while replaceMatches() was updated, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to trigger catastrophic regex backtracking and exhaust server CPU. This issue is fixed in version 6.9.10.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
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Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.5 · hapifhirNVD modified 2026-10-25 17:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:hapifhir:hl7_fhir_core:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 4
- https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/commit/56376f7986222626af061ca7fc27ee1ab030e590 Patch
- https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/releases/tag/6.9.10 Release Notes
- https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/security/advisories/GHSA-fxj4-p9xp-37v5 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/security/advisories/GHSA-fxj4-p9xp-37v5 Exploit, Third Party Advisory