Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting org.apache.neethi:neethi package, versions [,3.2.3)
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- published27 Aug 2026
- disclosed24 Jul 2026
- creditLTSHFWJT
Introduced: 24 Jul 2026
CVE-2026-66144 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade org.apache.neethi:neethi to version 3.2.3 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling through the PolicyReference.getRemoteReferencedPolicy path in src/main/java/org/apache/neethi/PolicyReference.java. An attacker can exhaust memory or force the process to spend excessive resources by supplying a remote policy reference that points to a very large policy and having it retrieved through the API. The vulnerable code reads the remote response directly into pe.getPolicy(in) without enforcing a size limit, so manually fetching an oversized remote policy can stall or crash applications that process untrusted policy references.