Apache Neethi is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion
Summary
Apache Neethi is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion when parsing policies that lack policy Ids or with deeply nested structures, which may lead to a denial of service attack when parsing policies due to runtime memory exhaustion. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.3, which fixes this issue.
What this means
In plain English
Apache Neethi is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion when parsing policies that lack policy Ids or with deeply nested structures, which may lead to a denial of service attack when parsing policies due to runtime memory exhaustion. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.3, which fixes this issue. Successful exploitation can interrupt the affected service or exhaust resources, reducing availability until the component recovers.
Recommended action
Primary action: update to a vendor-listed fixed release: 3.2.3. Vendor mitigation: Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.3, which fixes this issue.
Rewritten locally from the scraped official advisory data above; no generative API is used. The vendor advisory is authoritative.
- Apache Neethi before 3.2.3
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 2 hours ago·verify at source
- 3.2.3
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 2 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.3, which fixes this issue.
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 2 hours ago·verify at source
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