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Improper Authentication Affecting org.apache.wss4j:wss4j-ws-security-dom package, versions [2.0.0,2.0.2)

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.4% (74th percentile)
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NVD
5.3 medium
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Red Hat
4.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEWSS4J-31028
  • published 25 Dec 2016
  • disclosed 25 Oct 2014
  • credit Dario Amiri
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Introduced: 25 Oct 2014

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CWE-287 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.wss4j:wss4j-ws-security-dom to version 2.0.2 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 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.