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Severity
6.1
XSS
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Apache CXF is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the services listing page. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted URL to execute script in a victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the URL is clicked. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim's cookie-based authentication credentials.

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Source: IBM

Remedy

Mitigate this flaw by disabling the service listing altogether; via setting the "hide-service-list-page" servlet parameter to "true".
First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
Input Validation
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A flaw was found in Apache CXF prior to 3.2.1 and 3.1.14. It is possible to craft a message attachment header that could lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack on a CXF web service provider. Both JAX-WS and JAX-RS services are vulnerable to this attack.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/apache/cxf/commit/8bd915bfd7735c248ad660059c6b6ad26cdbcdf6

References:

http://cxf.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2017-12624.txt.asc

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Source: Red Hat
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