Apache Neethi is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack through algorithmic complexity in policy normalization. Specially crafted WS-Policy documents can trigger an exponential Cartesian cross-product expansion during the normalization process, causing unbounded memory allocation that exhausts the JVM heap. This occurs when the normalization process generates an excessive number of policy alternatives without bounds, leading to runtime memory exhaustion. Users should upgrade to 3.2.2 which limits the maximum number of normalized policy alternatives.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/p826j0phhmr9f83wzpmys1y0bdfrr2q4 Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.5 · apacheNVD modified 2026-10-26 21:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 2
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/p826j0phhmr9f83wzpmys1y0bdfrr2q4 Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/01/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory