12/05/2025
🚨 Chinese Threat Actors Begin Exploiting Critical React2Shell Vulnerability
Within hours of disclosure, two China-linked groups — Earth Lamia and Jackpot Panda — have started weaponizing React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182), a maximum-severity flaw in React Server Components enabling unauthenticated remote code ex*****on.
AWS reports active exploitation attempts through infrastructure previously tied to state-nexus campaigns targeting finance, logistics, retail, higher-education, and government sectors.
Attackers are already running reconnaissance commands, attempting file writes, and scanning for additional unpatched systems. The speed reinforces a recurring pattern: threat groups monitor newly published CVEs and integrate public exploits into automated pipelines almost immediately.
Cloudflare also confirmed a brief outage triggered by a rushed mitigation patch for React2Shell — highlighting how disruptive this vulnerability is across the industry.
🔐 What businesses should do now:
Update React to 19.0.1 / 19.1.2 / 19.2.1, review server logs, and ensure continuous monitoring across your environment.
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AWS reports China-linked groups Earth Lamia and Jackpot Panda rapidly attacking the critical React2Shell CVE-2025-55182 RCE flaw.