A specially crafted WS-Policy document can pack unlimited content inside a policy assertion, which Neethi copies into memory without counting it against its size limits, exhausting the heap (denial of service).
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.4, which fixes this issue.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.4, which fixes this issue.
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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| Apache Software Foundation | Apache Neethi | unaffected |
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Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:45:00 +0000
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| Description | A specially crafted WS-Policy document can pack unlimited content inside a policy assertion, which Neethi copies into memory without counting it against its size limits, exhausting the heap (denial of service). Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.4, which fixes this issue. | |
| Title | Apache Neethi: Crafted WS-Policy documents bypass element/attribute limits causing memory exhaustion | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: apache
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-21T11:26:20.054Z
Reserved: 2026-09-15T09:54:19.238Z
Link: CVE-2026-91864
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