CVE-2011-1096

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-11-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

The W3C XML Encryption Standard, as used in the JBoss Web Services (JBossWS) component in JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform before 5.2.2 and other products, when using block ciphers in cipher-block chaining (CBC) mode, allows remote attackers to obtain plaintext data via a chosen-ciphertext attack on SOAP responses, aka "character encoding pattern attack."

Affected products

RedHat Jboss Enterprise Portal Platform: through 5.2.1; 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.1.0, 5.1.1, 5.2.0

References

http://aktuell.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pm2011/pm00330.html.de
http://coheigea.blogspot.com/2012/04/note-on-cve-2011-1096.html
http://cxf.apache.org/note-on-cve-2011-1096.html
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2046756&dl=ACM&coll=DL
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1301.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1330.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1344.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0191.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0192.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0193.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0194.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0195.html

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