GHSA-v45r-rj5x-hpg2Medium

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information in Apache CXF

Published
May 13, 2022
Last Modified
December 21, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

The SymmetricBinding in Apache CXF before 2.6.13 and 2.7.x before 2.7.10, when EncryptBeforeSigning is enabled and the UsernameToken policy is set to an EncryptedSupportingToken, transmits the UsernameToken in cleartext, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network.

🎯 Affected products2

  • maven/org.apache.cxf:cxf-core:< 2.6.13
  • maven/org.apache.cxf:cxf-core:>= 2.7.0, < 2.7.10

🔗 References (18)