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.
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Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:45:00 +0000
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-400 CWE-973 |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-835 | |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-674 | |
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Apache
Apache neethi |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-400 CWE-973 |
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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 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: apache
Published: 2026-09-21T11:25:26.648Z
Updated: 2026-09-21T13:36:42.505Z
Reserved: 2026-09-15T09:50:54.325Z
Link: CVE-2026-91863
Updated: 2026-09-21T12:14:30.467Z
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2026-09-21T12:17:24.697
Modified: 2026-09-24T20:34:14.977
Link: CVE-2026-91863