Improper Authentication Affecting wss4j:wss4j package, versions (,1.5.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.84% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-WSS4J-30180
  • published25 Dec 2016
  • disclosed25 Oct 2014
  • creditDario Amiri

Introduced: 25 Oct 2014

CVE-2014-3623  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

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.

CVSS Scores

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