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, which fix this issue by imposing a maximum default of 500 attachments per message.

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{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description 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, which fix this issue by imposing a maximum default of 500 attachments per message.
Title Apache CXF: No restriction on attachment headers per message
Weaknesses CWE-400
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published:

Updated: 2026-06-12T13:43:27.552Z

Reserved: 2026-06-05T14:05:01.499Z

Link: CVE-2026-50645

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-06-12T09:28:15.759Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Undergoing Analysis

Published: 2026-06-12T10:16:23.533

Modified: 2026-06-12T13:08:47.310

Link: CVE-2026-50645

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-06-12T11:00:06Z

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