HIGHpublic-safe

CVE-2026-66142

NVD: Apache Neethi is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion when parsing policies that lack policy Ids or with deeply nested structures, which may lead to a denial of service attack when parsing policies due to runtime memory exhaustion. NVD: Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.3, which fixes this issue. OSV: Apache Neethi: Uncontrolled recursion in policy processing

CVSS
7.5 Severity
HIGH EPSS
0.0048 (39) KEV
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Source-published summary

Possible impact

Source describes service availability risk. Possible impact: The affected service may become unavailable or unreliable.

Affected context

vendor/product: apache / neethi

Remediation / advisory

Patch confirmed by source text; fixed version context: version.

Why it matters

Source describes service availability risk. Possible impact: The affected service may become unavailable or unreliable.; CVSS 7.5 (HIGH); EPSS percentile 39; not listed in KEV; Patch confirmed by source text; fixed version context: version; sources: NVD, OSV, Vendor Advisory.

What to verify

Confirm affected product/version, vendor advisory, patch or mitigation, and exposure.

Exposure hint

exposure unknown

Impact tags

service availability review

Urgency reasons

CVSS HIGHaffected product presentvendor advisory presentrecent updateremediation reference present

Source-derived note

Summary derived from NVD / OSV / Vendor Advisory description; unsafe procedural detail is not shown.

Redaction metadata

source summary used: True
fallback summary used: False
unsafe procedural detail present: false
raw source displayed: false
public summary redacted: true

Remediation handoff

Public-safe static handoff for human/Codex remediation planning. Scan, patch, external execution, and auto remediation are disabled.

Handoff JSON Handoff Markdown Safe Codex prompt

Safety note

This radar shows source-published defensive context only. Exploit procedures, exploit strings, scanner commands, and auto-remediation are not provided.