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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2026-66143

High
7.5/10

Summary

It is possible to bypass themaximum number of normalized policy alternatives that was introduced in Apache Neethi 3.2.2 via certain crafted policies, which may lead to a denial of service attack via resource consumption.Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.3, which fixes this issue.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published