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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-102497 EUVD-2026-88739GHSA-9wgm-rwmh-4mcv

Apache XMLSchema: Denial of service through cyclic schema definitions in the schema walker

Published Sep 29, 2026 · Updated Sep 29, 2026 · Assigned by apache

Description

The Apache XmlSchema walker (xmlschema-walker) doesn't detect cycles in type derivation, substitution groups, model groups or attribute groups. A malicious schema with such a cycle can make the walker recurse until the stack overflows, causing a denial of service.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.3.3, which fixes this issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Apache Software Foundation Apache XMLSchema < 2.3.3 2.3.3

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