CVE-2017-5656

high Apache
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
2.4%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 15% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Published: April 18, 2017 (3313 days ago)
Last Modified: May 13, 2026
Vendor: Apache
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

CWE-384

Affected Products

apache cxf

References

🔗 cxf.apache.org 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.securitytracker.com 🔗 access.redhat.com 🔗 access.redhat.com