Replay Attack Affecting org.apache.wss4j:wss4j-ws-security-dom package, versions [,2.4.4)[3.0.0,3.0.6)[4.0.0,4.0.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.51% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEWSS4J-21716575
  • published26 Oct 2026
  • disclosed30 Sept 2026
  • creditn0mi1k

Introduced: 30 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-92899  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-294  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.wss4j:wss4j-ws-security-dom to version 2.4.4, 3.0.6, 4.0.2 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.wss4j:wss4j-ws-security-dom is a Web Services Security (WS-Security) library being developed at OASIS Web Services Security TC. WSS4J is a primarily a Java library that can be used to sign and verify SOAP Messages with WS-Security information. WSS4J will use Apache Axis and Apache XML-Security projects and will be interoperable with JAX-RPC based server/clients and .NET server/clients.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Replay Attack through the UsernameTokenProcessor and UsernameTokenInputHandler in its DOM and StAX inbound processing. An attacker who captures a valid password-digest UsernameToken can resend it with whitespace added to its Base64 Nonce; the digest still verifies, but the raw-text replay-cache lookup misses the token, allowing the attacker to reuse it on requests of their choosing and perform actions as the authenticated user until the token expires. The attack requires a configured nonce replay cache.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1