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Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm in Apache WSS4J

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Apr 22, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 15, 2023

Package

maven org.apache.ws.security:wss4j (Maven)

Affected versions

< 1.6.5

Patched versions

1.6.5

Description

The implementations of PKCS#1 v1.5 key transport mechanism for XMLEncryption in JBossWS and Apache WSS4J before 1.6.5 is susceptible to a Bleichenbacher attack.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 11, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 22, 2022
Reviewed Jul 13, 2022
Last updated Feb 15, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.9
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2011-2487

GHSA ID

GHSA-4qqf-hmv6-r6wh

Source code

No known source code
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