CVE-2026-66142

Apache Neethi: Uncontrolled recursion in policy processing

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Jul 24, 2026
Updated: Jul 24, 2026
Reserved: Jul 24, 2026

Description

Apache Neethi is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion when parsing policies that lack policy Ids or with deeply nested structures, which may lead to a denial of service attack when parsing policies due to runtime memory exhaustion. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.3, which fixes this issue.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Apache NeethiApache Software Foundation	before 3.2.3Affected

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread/fomwtwt4pzzhxn4fyn3skykto913vfztvendor-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/07/24/8

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