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CVE-2026-91866

7.5 HIGH

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

AI risk analysis

Summary
The flaw involves a denial of service vulnerability in Neethi's policy-intersection due to improperly handled WS-Policy documents, leading to excessive CPU usage.
Exploitability
Exploitation requires a specially crafted pair of WS-Policy documents and is considered moderate difficulty given the specific conditions needed.
Blast radius
If exploited, this could significantly impact system performance, potentially disrupting services for all users.
Prioritized remediation
Upgrade to Neethi version 3.2.4 to address the vulnerability.
dosws-policyneethi

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 pair of WS-Policy documents can force Neethi's policy-intersection to do exponential amounts of work, pinning the CPU for a long time (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-770

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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