High [CVE-2026-42402] Apache Neethi: Apache Neethi is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack through algorithmic complexity in policy normalization.
This high-severity Apache Software Foundation advisory covers CVE-2026-42402 affecting Apache Neethi.
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Summary
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.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.
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Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 3.2.2. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
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