Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-42403
Apache Neethi does not properly detect circular references in policy definitions. When a WS-Policy document contains circular policy references (where Policy A references Policy B which references Policy A), the policy normalization process can enter an infinite loop or cause excessive recursion, leading to a stack overflow or application hang. An attacker can craft malicious policy documents with circular references to cause a Denial of Service condition
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.2, which fixes this issue.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.008
EPSS Ranking 52.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
Products affected by CVE-2026-42403
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:0.90
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:1.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:1.01
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:2.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:2.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:2.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:2.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:2.0.5
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:3.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:3.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:3.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:3.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:3.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:3.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:3.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:3.2.1