Improper Authentication Affecting org.apache.wss4j:wss4j package, versions (,2.0.1]
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEWSS4J-30068
- published 25 Dec 2016
- disclosed 25 Oct 2014
- credit Dario Amiri
Introduced: 25 Oct 2014
CVE-2014-3623 Open this link in a new tabOverview
org.apache.wss4j:wss4j 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 Improper Authentication. When using TransportBinding
, does not properly enforce the SAML SubjectConfirmation
method security semantics, which allows remote attackers to conduct spoofing attacks via unspecified vectors.