CVE-2026-66142

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.06 BB Relevance: 75/100
Published: 2026-07-24 Modified: 2026-10-24 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

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. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.3, which fixes this issue.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (1)

VendorProductVersion
apache neethi < 3.2.3

References & Advisories (2)

Bug Bounty Relevance

75 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

7.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.74%
Raw Score 0.007400
Percentile 54.5%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00740
2026-10-28
0.00740

Intelligence Sources

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