CVE-2026-66142

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.5 High

Status

Analyzed - security@apache.org

Published

2026-07-24

Last modified

2026-10-24

Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected products

• Neethi (Apache)
• Apache Neethi (Apache Software Foundation)

References

• https://lists.apache.org/thread/fomwtwt4pzzhxn4fyn3skykto913vfzt
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/07/24/8