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CVE-2017-5656
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…
High7.5EPSS 6.8%
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Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.8% · top 6.0% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- Apache CXF's STSClient uses a flawed way of caching tokens that are associated with delegation tokens.
- CWE-384 (opens in a new tab)
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache CXF
- affected 3.1.x before 3.1.11
- affected versions before 3.0.13
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.cxf:cxf-coreGHSA-v936-x3j5-c76j (opens in a new tab)
References (11)
- RHSA-2017:1832 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1038282 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://cxf.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2017-5656.txt.asc?version=1&modificationDate=1492515113282&api=v2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 97971 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:1694 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [cxf-commits] 20200116 svn commit: r1055336 - in /websites/production/cxf/content: cache/main.pageCache security-advisories.data/CVE-2019-12423.txt.asc security-advisories.data/CVE-2019-17573.txt.asc security-advisories.html (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [cxf-commits] 20200319 svn commit: r1058035 - in /websites/production/cxf/content: cache/main.pageCache security-advisories.data/CVE-2019-17573.txt.asc security-advisories.html (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [cxf-commits] 20200401 svn commit: r1058573 - in /websites/production/cxf/content: cache/main.pageCache index.html security-advisories.data/CVE-2020-1954.txt.asc security-advisories.html (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [cxf-commits] 20201112 svn commit: r1067927 - in /websites/production/cxf/content: cache/main.pageCache security-advisories.data/CVE-2020-13954.txt.asc security-advisories.html (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [cxf-commits] 20210402 svn commit: r1073270 - in /websites/production/cxf/content: cache/main.pageCache security-advisories.data/CVE-2021-22696.txt.asc security-advisories.html (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [cxf-commits] 20210616 svn commit: r1075801 - in /websites/production/cxf/content: cache/main.pageCache index.html security-advisories.data/CVE-2021-30468.txt.asc security-advisories.html (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-v936-x3j5-c76j (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .