CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-42403
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-05-01
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
Apache Neethi does not properly detect circular references in policy definitions. When a WS-Policy document contains circular policy references (where Policy A references Policy B which references Policy A), the policy normalization process can enter an infinite loop or cause excessive recursion, leading to a stack overflow or application hang. An attacker can craft malicious policy documents with circular references to cause a Denial of Service condition
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.2, which fixes this issue.
Affected configurations
• apache neethi (< 3.2.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/zm6t8skkkskjwk1881l4m4n0l7dqclzo Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/01/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory