High
Security advisory
The AsyncResponseWrapperImpl class in Apache Olingo versions 4.0.0 to 4.6.0 reads the Retry-After header and passes it to the Thread.sleep() method without any check. If a malicious server returns a huge value in the header, then it can help to implement a DoS attack.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-17555
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:03 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The AsyncResponseWrapperImpl class in Apache Olingo versions 4.0.0 to 4.6.0 reads the Retry-After header and passes it to the Thread.sleep() method without any check. If a malicious server returns a huge value in the header, then it can help to implement a DoS attack.
osv:CVE-2019-17555
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:34.727802741Z",
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"references": [
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"published_at": "2019-12-04T18:15:16.07+00:00"
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