CVE-2012-5575

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-08-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

Apache CXF 2.5.x before 2.5.10, 2.6.x before CXF 2.6.7, and 2.7.x before CXF 2.7.4 does not verify that a specified cryptographic algorithm is allowed by the WS-SecurityPolicy AlgorithmSuite definition before decrypting, which allows remote attackers to force CXF to use weaker cryptographic algorithms than intended and makes it easier to decrypt communications, aka "XML Encryption backwards compatibility attack."

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache CXF: 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.5.5 (+15)
Red Hat JBoss EAP: 5.0.0
RedHat Jboss Enterprise Portal Platform: 4.3.0
RedHat Jboss Enterprise Soa Platform: 4.3.0
RedHat Jboss Enterprise Web Platform: 5.2.0
RedHat Jboss Fuse Esb Enterprise: 7.1.0

References

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