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…

PriorityP340high7.5CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUINSUCNINAH

EPSS

0.33%

25.3th percentile

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.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
apache	neethi	< 3.2.3	3.2.3
apache_software_foundation	apache_neethi	< 3.2.3	3.2.3

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