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CVE-2026-42403
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-05-01T09:16:17.137 · Last modified 2026-06-17T10:47:47.620

Summary

Apache Neethi does not properly detect circular references in policy definitions. When a WS-Policy document contains circular policy references (where Policy A references Policy B which references Policy A), the policy normalization process can enter an infinite loop or cause excessive recursion, leading to a stack overflow or application hang. An attacker can craft malicious policy documents with circular references to cause a Denial of Service condition Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.2, which fixes this issue.

Affected products

apache — neethi

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References

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