VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-5656

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability6.83%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-04-18
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-384: Session Fixation

Primary references