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Medium 4.3
Apache Neethi: Remote policy fetch lacks a total timeout, allowing a slow server to hang the request indefinitely
When Neethi fetches a remote policy reference, it only limits the time per read, not the whole transfer, so a server that trickles bytes slowly can keep the fetch alive indefinitely and tie up the calling thread (denial of service). Users are recommended to u…
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Medium 6.5
Apache Neethi: Unrestricted HTTP Redirect Following in Policy References
Apache Neethi does not impose any restrictions on URIs when manually fetching remote policy references through the PolicyReference API. When an application explicitly calls the API to retrieve a policy from a remote URI, an outbound request is made for arbitr…