CVE-2026-91867

Apache Neethi: Remote policy fetch lacks a total timeout, allowing a slow server to hang the request indefinitely

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 4.3
EPSS: EPSS 0.50 % · percentile 42 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-09-21
Updated: 2026-09-21
Assigner: apache
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

When Neethi fetches a remote policy reference, it only limits the time per read, not the whole transfer, so a server that trickles bytes slowly can keep the fetch alive indefinitely and tie up the calling thread (denial of service). Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.4, which fixes this issue.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-400

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-83889
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-91867

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:apache:neethi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 3.2.4

Affected products

Product	Versions
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Neethi	affected 0 < 3.2.4

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD