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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

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

0.641%
(80th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2011-2487

GHSA ID

GHSA-4qqf-hmv6-r6wh

Source code

No known source code
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