🛡️ CVE-2026-42404 — neethi

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-918 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Apache Neethi doesn't impose any restrictions on URIs when manually fetching remote policy references through the PolicyReference API

Apache Neethi does not impose any restrictions on URIs when manually fetching remote policy references through the PolicyReference API. When an application explicitly calls the API to retrieve a policy from a remote URI, an outbound request is made for arbitrary protocols and internal IP adddresses. From 3.2.2, only http or https URIs are allowed, and link-local/multicast/any-local addresses are forbidden.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.2, which fixes this issue.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-42404 is classified as CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). The server fetches a URL supplied by the caller, which can be pointed at internal systems it alone can reach.

Affected software

CVE-2026-42404 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • neethi (fixed in 3.2.2)
  • org.apache.neethi:neethi (fixed in 3.2.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 1 May 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

lists.apache.org
www.openwall.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-918
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-01
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
neethi — 3.2.2
org.apache.neethi:neethi — 3.2.2

References

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