CVE-2017-5656

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-5656  

It was found that the token cacher in Apache cxf uses a flawed way of caching tokens that are associated with the delegation token received from Security Token Service (STS). This vulnerability could allow an attacker to craft a token which could return an identifier corresponding to a cached token for another user.

It was found that the token cacher in Apache cxf uses a flawed way of caching tokens that are associated with the delegation token received from Security Token Service (STS). This vulnerability could allow an attacker to craft a token which could return an identifier corresponding to a cached token for another user.

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CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 5.3
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3 RHSA-2017:1832 2017-08-10
Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3 RHSA-2017:1832 2017-08-10
Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes 1.0 RHSA-2018:1694 2018-05-22

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 cxf Not affected
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 cxf Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform 6 cxf Not affected
Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 cxf Not affected
Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 cxf Not affected
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5 cxf Not affected
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.1.0 cxf Not affected
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.0.7 cxf Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss EAP 6 cxf Not affected
Red Hat JBoss EAP 5 cxf Not affected
Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 cxf Not affected
Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 cxf Not affected
Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 cxf Not affected
Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 cxf Not affected
Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6 cxf Not affected

External References