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Network-reachable, no auth or interaction needed, but impact is limited to tying up threads (availability-only, A:L) with no C/I impact; single-request effect is partial, not total.
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Denial of service in Apache Neethi (org.apache.neethi:neethi) before 3.2.4 allows a malicious or compromised remote policy server to stall a WS-Policy fetch indefinitely, tying up the calling thread for as long as the server keeps trickling bytes. Deployments are exposed only where an application uses Neethi to resolve a remote PolicyReference over HTTP; applications that consume locally embedded or bundled policy documents are not affected. …
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| Exploitation | Requires that the deploying application uses Apache Neethi to fetch a remote policy reference over the network AND that an attacker can control or influence the responding server (or interpose one) so it delivers bytes slowly without ever completing. … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment. |
| Risk Assessment | This is a genuine but low-to-moderate priority issue. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in. |
| Exploit Scenario | Full exploit scenario with step-by-step reproduction available after sign-in. |
| Remediation | Vendor-released patch: Apache Neethi 3.2.4, which introduces a bound on the total policy-fetch transfer time; upgrade the org.apache.neethi:neethi dependency to 3.2.4 and rebuild, then confirm via dependency-tree inspection that no transitive path pins an older Neethi. … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report. |
Recommended ActionAI
Within 24 hours, inventory Java applications that depend on org.apache.neethi:neethi and determine which of them resolve remote PolicyReference endpoints over HTTP rather than loading bundled policy documents, since only those are exposed; for any confirmed to do so, restrict outbound HTTP/S from those hosts to an approved allowlist of policy servers and configure strict connect/read/socket timeouts and maximum response-size limits on the HTTP client used for policy fetch. …
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