CVE-2012-5633

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-03-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The URIMappingInterceptor in Apache CXF before 2.5.8, 2.6.x before 2.6.5, and 2.7.x before 2.7.2, when using the WSS4JInInterceptor, bypasses WS-Security processing, which allows remote attackers to obtain access to SOAP services via an HTTP GET request.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache CXF: through 2.5.7; 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.5.5 (+8)

References

http://cxf.apache.org/cve-2012-5633.html
http://osvdb.org/90079
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/120213/Apache-CXF-WS-Security-URIMappingInterceptor-Bypass.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0256.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0257.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0258.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0259.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0726.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0743.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0749.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Feb/39
http://secunia.com/advisories/51988

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