VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2026-66142
CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability0.74%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-07-24
Last modified2026-10-24
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
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.
Weakness classification
- CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Primary references
- security@apache.org — Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory