GHSA-p5c5-6564-vvr8Medium

Improper Authentication in Apache CXF

Published
May 5, 2022
Last Modified
December 21, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Apache CXF before 2.5.9, 2.6.x before 2.6.6, and 2.7.x before 2.7.3, when the plaintext UsernameToken WS-SecurityPolicy is enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a security header of a SOAP request containing a UsernameToken element that lacks a password child element.

🎯 Affected products3

  • maven/org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-frontend-jaxrs:< 2.5.9
  • maven/org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-frontend-jaxrs:>= 2.6.0, < 2.6.6
  • maven/org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-frontend-jaxrs:>= 2.7.0, < 2.7.3

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