Apache Neethi: Uncontrolled recursion while parsing crafted WS-Policy documents allows denial of service
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observed exploitation
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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.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Neethi