Security Resilience

CVE-2023-26513

DoS in Apache Sling Resource Merger 1.2.0 – 1.4.2

Published
20 March 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.015 73th percentile
Risk Priority 62 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2023-26513 is a high-severity Excessive Iteration (CWE-834) vulnerability in Apache Sling Resource Merger. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 27% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Excessive Iteration vulnerability in Apache Software Foundation Apache Sling Resource Merger.This issue affects Apache Sling Resource Merger: from 1.2.0 before 1.4.2.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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Affected Assets

apache
sling resource merger
1.2.0 — 1.4.2

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

blocks

Secure development lifecycle requires input validation and loop bounds, directly limiting excessive iteration.

blocks

Application security requirements include resource-consumption limits that prevent unbounded loops.

blocks

Secure architecture principles mandate defensive coding patterns such as loop termination checks.

prevents

Secure coding standards explicitly forbid unbounded loops and require explicit iteration limits.

finds

Security testing can detect excessive iteration through stress and fuzz testing.

Hardening callouts derived

DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.

  • No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-834, a class-level weakness, and none of its children carries one either.

References