Policy Bypass Affecting org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-ws-security package, versions [2.4.5,2.4.8) [2.5.1,2.5.4) [2.6.0,2.6.1)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHECXF-30585
- published 17 Jun 2014
- disclosed 5 Jan 2013
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 5 Jan 2013
CVE-2012-2378 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-ws-security to version 2.4.8, 2.5.4, 2.6.1 or higher.
Overview
org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-ws-security is an services framework that helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Policy Bypass.
It 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.