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.
History

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CPEs cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Weaknesses CWE-1333
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Important


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Weaknesses CWE-400

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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'}


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

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Weaknesses CWE-400
CWE-770

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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: 2026-09-21T11:27:15.767Z

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 : Analyzed

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

Modified: 2026-09-25T13:09:24.660

Link: CVE-2026-91866

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-09-21T11:27:15Z

Links: CVE-2026-91866 - Bugzilla