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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2026-91865

Apache Neethi: Crafted policy references cause exponential expansion during normalization leading to denial of service

Description

A small WS-Policy document using repeated policy references can force Neethi to re-expand the same references exponentially during normalization, consuming huge amounts of CPU and memory (denial of service). Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.4, which fixes this issue.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Apache Software Foundation Apache Neethi

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 3.2.4affected

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