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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-91866 EUVD-2026-83888GHSA-q84r-gp7c-vfr3

Apache Neethi: Crafted policies cause unbounded work during intersection leading to denial of service

Published Sep 21, 2026 · Updated Sep 21, 2026 · Assigned by apache

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Apache Software Foundation Apache Neethi < 3.2.4 3.2.4

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