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CVE-2026-91863

7.5 HIGH

Published 2026-09-21 · Updated 2026-09-21

AI risk analysis

Summary
The flaw allows a specially crafted WS-Policy document to exhaust the thread stack, causing a denial of service. This matters because it can disrupt service without requiring sophisticated exploitation.
Exploitability
Exploitation requires sending a complex WS-Policy document; preconditions include using an affected version of Neethi.
Blast radius
If exploited, this could lead to service disruption for systems relying on the affected parser.
Prioritized remediation
Upgrade to Neethi version 3.2.4 immediately to address this issue.
dosxmlpolicyparser

Analysis generated locally by qwen2.5:7b-instruct (no data left the box). AI-assisted — verify against primary sources before acting.

NVD description

A specially crafted WS-Policy document with deeply nested policy elements can bypass Neethi's nesting-depth limit and exhaust the thread stack, crashing the parser (denial of service). Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.4, which fixes this issue.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-674

All references

Source data: NVD (nvd.nist.gov), public domain. Exploit-DB.ai adds local AI analysis for defensive use only.

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