Although remote policy references are not retrieved during policy normalization, if they are manually retrieved
Summary
Although remote policy references are not retrieved during policy normalization, if they are manually retrieved via the API it can cause a denial of service attack if a huge policy is retrieved. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.3, which fixes this issue by imposing a default maximum size on data read from remote policy references.
What this means
In plain English
Although remote policy references are not retrieved during policy normalization, if they are manually retrieved via the API it can cause a denial of service attack if a huge policy is retrieved. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.3, which fixes this issue by imposing a default maximum size on data read from remote policy references. 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 by imposing a default maximum size on data read from remote policy references.
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 by imposing a default maximum size on data read from remote policy references.
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 2 hours ago·verify at source
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