Use of a Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting org.apache.ws.security:wss4j Open this link in a new tab package, versions [,1.6.4)
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
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snyk-id
SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEWSSECURITY-31025
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published
16 Oct 2015
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disclosed
16 Oct 2015
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credit
Tibor Jager, Sebastian Schinzel, Juraj Somorovsky
Introduced: 16 Oct 2015
CVE-2011-2487 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.apache.ws.security:wss4j
to version 1.6.4 or higher.
Overview
org.apache.ws.security:wss4j is a project that provides a Java implementation of the primary security standards for Web Services, namely the OASIS Web Services Security (WS-Security) specifications from the OASIS Web Services Security TC.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of a Risky Cryptographic Algorithm. The PKCS#1 v1.5 Key Transport
Algorithm is used to encrypt symmetric keys as part of WS-Security. WSS4J can leak information about where a particular decryption operation fails.