Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting neethi package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.71% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-NEETHI-16716980
  • published16 May 2026
  • disclosed1 May 2026

Introduced: 1 May 2026

CVE-2026-42402  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 neethi.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream neethi package and not the neethi package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Apache Neethi is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack through algorithmic complexity in policy normalization. Specially crafted WS-Policy documents can trigger an exponential Cartesian cross-product expansion during the normalization process, causing unbounded memory allocation that exhausts the JVM heap. This occurs when the normalization process generates an excessive number of policy alternatives without bounds, leading to runtime memory exhaustion.

Users should upgrade to 3.2.2 which limits the maximum number of normalized policy alternatives.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1