Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Apache Neethi - CVE-2026-91864
Published: September 21, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU151527
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-91864
CWE-ID: CWE-770
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
The vulnerability exists due to failure to enforce size limits in WS-Policy assertion processing when processing a specially crafted WS-Policy document. A remote attacker can submit a specially crafted WS-Policy document to exhaust heap memory.
Affected software
Apache Neethi
How to mitigate CVE-2026-91864
Install security update from vendor's website.
Apache Neethi - update to 3.2.4