CVE-2026-50645 (GCVE-0-2026-50645)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-06-12 09:06
Modified
2026-08-07 12:43
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Summary
There is no restriction on the amount of attachment headers that a message can contain when being deserialized by Apache CXF, which can lead to uncontrolled resource consumption or a denial of service attack. Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 4.2.2 or 4.1.7 or 3.6.12, which fix this issue by imposing a maximum default of 500 attachments per message.
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Apache Software Foundation Apache CXF Version: 4.2.0   ≤
Version: 4.0.0   ≤
Version: 0   ≤
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