There is no restriction on the amount of attachment headers that a message can contain when being deserialized by Apache CXF, which can lead to uncontrolled resource consumption or a denial of service attack. Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 4.2.2 or 4.1.7 or 3.6.12, which fix this issue by imposing a maximum default of 500 attachments per message.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/24zb7cqcvykhwm0j797dmdq25s61mj93 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 11:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 2
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/24zb7cqcvykhwm0j797dmdq25s61mj93 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/06/11/12 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory