CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-5656

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Apache CXF's STSClient before 3.1.11 and 3.0.13 uses a flawed way of caching tokens associated with delegation tokens. This allows an attacker to craft a token that returns an identifier corresponding to a cached token for another user.

Risk Assessment

Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to unauthorized access to user resources, posing a serious threat to data security within the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade Apache CXF to version 3.1.11 or 3.0.13 to mitigate this vulnerability and implement additional security measures to protect against token-related attacks.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Apache CXF's STSClient before 3.1.11 and 3.0.13 uses a flawed way of caching tokens that are associated with delegation tokens, which means that an attacker could craft a token which would return an identifer corresponding to a cached token for another user.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS