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Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information in Apache CXF

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Dec 21, 2023

Package

maven org.apache.cxf:cxf-core (Maven)

Affected versions

< 2.6.13
>= 2.7.0, < 2.7.10

Patched versions

2.6.13
2.7.10

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 7, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Jul 7, 2022
Last updated Dec 21, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.212%
(59th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2014-0035

GHSA ID

GHSA-v45r-rj5x-hpg2

Source code

Credits

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