A specially crafted WS-Policy document can pack unlimited content inside a policy assertion, which Neethi copies into memory without counting it against its size limits, exhausting the heap (denial of service).
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.4, which fixes this issue.

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Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:45:00 +0000

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Description A specially crafted WS-Policy document can pack unlimited content inside a policy assertion, which Neethi copies into memory without counting it against its size limits, exhausting the heap (denial of service). Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.4, which fixes this issue.
Title Apache Neethi: Crafted WS-Policy documents bypass element/attribute limits causing memory exhaustion
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

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Updated: 2026-09-21T12:14:32.743Z

Reserved: 2026-09-15T09:54:19.238Z

Link: CVE-2026-91864

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-21T12:17:24.807

Modified: 2026-09-21T12:17:24.807

Link: CVE-2026-91864

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Updated: 2026-09-21T12:30:14Z

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