Description
A specially crafted WS-Policy document with deeply nested policy elements can bypass Neethi's nesting-depth limit and exhaust the thread stack, crashing the parser (denial of service).
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.4, which fixes this issue.
Published: 2026-09-21
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Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:45:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-400
CWE-973

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:45:00 +0000

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Description A specially crafted WS-Policy document with deeply nested policy elements can bypass Neethi's nesting-depth limit and exhaust the thread stack, crashing the parser (denial of service). Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.4, which fixes this issue.
Title Apache Neethi: Uncontrolled recursion while parsing crafted WS-Policy documents allows denial of service
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-21T12:14:30.467Z

Reserved: 2026-09-15T09:50:54.325Z

Link: CVE-2026-91863

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-21T12:17:24.697

Modified: 2026-09-21T12:17:24.697

Link: CVE-2026-91863

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Updated: 2026-09-21T12:30:14Z

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