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Advisory details: vulnrichment / CVE-2026-50645
Advisory ID vulnrichment/CVE-2026-50645
Aliases
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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 7.5
ssvc Track
Reference id Reference type URL
24zb7cqcvykhwm0j797dmdq25s61mj93 Advisory https://lists.apache.org/thread/24zb7cqcvykhwm0j797dmdq25s61mj93
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at None
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-06-12T13:43:22Z/ Found at None

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-06-12T13:43:22Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2026/50xxx/CVE-2026-50645.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2026-50645

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'yes'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]