CVE-2015-0226

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-10-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-327

Description

Apache WSS4J before 1.6.17 and 2.0.x before 2.0.2 improperly leaks information about decryption failures when decrypting an encrypted key or message data, which makes it easier for remote attackers to recover the plaintext form of a symmetric key via a series of crafted messages. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-2487.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache WSS4J: through 1.6.16; 2.0-beta, 2.0.0, 2.0.0-rc1, 2.0.1

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0846.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0847.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0848.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0849.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1176.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1177.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72553
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1376
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbgn03900en_us
https://ws.apache.org/wss4j/advisories/CVE-2015-0226.txt.asc
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0846.html

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