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Improper Authentication in Apache CXF

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 13, 2023

Package

maven org.apache.cxf:cxf (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 2.4.5, < 2.4.8
>= 2.5.1, < 2.5.3
>= 2.6.0, < 2.6.1

Patched versions

2.4.8
2.5.3
2.6.1

Description

Apache CXF 2.4.5 through 2.4.7, 2.5.1 through 2.5.3, and 2.6.x before 2.6.1, does not properly enforce child policies of a WS-SecurityPolicy 1.1 SupportingToken policy on the client side, which allows remote attackers to bypass the (1) AlgorithmSuite, (2) SignedParts, (3) SignedElements, (4) EncryptedParts, and (5) EncryptedElements policies.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 5, 2013
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Jul 13, 2022
Last updated Feb 13, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.160%
(53rd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2012-2378

GHSA ID

GHSA-vjpc-vf4f-82qg

Source code

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