A specially crafted pair of WS-Policy documents can force Neethi's policy-intersection to do exponential amounts of work, pinning the CPU for a long time (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 11:45:00 +0000

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Description A specially crafted pair of WS-Policy documents can force Neethi's policy-intersection to do exponential amounts of work, pinning the CPU for a long time (denial of service). Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.4, which fixes this issue.
Title Apache Neethi: Crafted policies cause unbounded work during intersection leading to denial of service
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

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Updated: 2026-09-21T11:27:15.767Z

Reserved: 2026-09-15T09:57:16.031Z

Link: CVE-2026-91866

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