Description
A specially crafted pair of WS-Policy documents can force Neethi's policy-intersection to do exponential amounts of work, pinning the CPU for a long time (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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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'}


Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:30:00 +0000

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

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

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Weaknesses CWE-400
CWE-770

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

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Description A specially crafted pair of WS-Policy documents can force Neethi's policy-intersection to do exponential amounts of work, pinning the CPU for a long time (denial of service). Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.4, which fixes this issue.
Title Apache Neethi: Crafted policies cause unbounded work during intersection leading to denial of service
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-21T13:17:25.639Z

Reserved: 2026-09-15T09:57:16.031Z

Link: CVE-2026-91866

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-21T12:14:36.782Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-21T12:17:25.000

Modified: 2026-09-21T14:17:29.657

Link: CVE-2026-91866

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-21T13:15:08Z

Weaknesses