Resource exhaustion in Apache Neethi - CVE-2026-91867
Published: September 21, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU151530
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-91867
CWE-ID: CWE-400
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 a missing total transfer timeout in remote policy reference fetching when fetching a remote policy reference from a server that slowly trickles bytes. A remote attacker can slowly transmit a remote policy reference to cause a denial of service.
Affected software
Apache Neethi
How to mitigate CVE-2026-91867
Install security update from vendor's website.
Apache Neethi - update to 3.2.4