Description
A specially crafted WS-Policy document with deeply nested policy elements can bypass Neethi's nesting-depth limit and exhaust the thread stack, crashing the parser (denial of service).
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.4, which fixes this issue.
Published: 2026-09-21
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:30:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-674
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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References

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:15:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Apache
Apache neethi
Vendors & Products Apache
Apache neethi

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:45:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-400
CWE-973

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:45:00 +0000

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Description A specially crafted WS-Policy document with deeply nested policy elements can bypass Neethi's nesting-depth limit and exhaust the thread stack, crashing the parser (denial of service). Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.4, which fixes this issue.
Title Apache Neethi: Uncontrolled recursion while parsing crafted WS-Policy documents allows denial of service
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-21T13:36:42.505Z

Reserved: 2026-09-15T09:50:54.325Z

Link: CVE-2026-91863

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-21T12:14:30.467Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-21T12:17:24.697

Modified: 2026-09-21T14:17:29.133

Link: CVE-2026-91863

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-21T13:00:13Z

Weaknesses