CVE-2017-5656
Session Fixation in Apache CXF
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 2.4%
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.
How to fix CVE-2017-5656
To remediate CVE-2017-5656, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Maven/org.apache.cxf:cxf-core—upgrade to 3.1.11 or later
Is CVE-2017-5656 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 2.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- >= 3.1.0, < 3.1.11
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |