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CVE-2012-5351

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-10-09 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

Apache Axis2 allows remote attackers to forge messages and bypass authentication via a SAML assertion that lacks a Signature element, aka a "Signature exclusion attack," a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4418.

Affected products

• Apache Axis2: all versions

References

• http://www.nds.rub.de/media/nds/veroeffentlichungen/2012/08/22/BreakingSAML_3.pdf
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79487
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
• http://www.nds.rub.de/media/nds/veroeffentlichungen/2012/08/22/BreakingSAML_3.pdf
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79487
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

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