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."
Remediation
References
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0876.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0943.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0873.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880443
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60043
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1028.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1143.html
http://www.nds.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/research/publications/backwards-compatibility/
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0874.html
http://cxf.apache.org/cve-2012-5575.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0875.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1437.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0833.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0839.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0834.html
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfb87e0bf3995e7d560afeed750fac9329ff5f1ad49da365129b7f89e%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r36e44ffc1a9b365327df62cdfaabe85b9a5637de102cea07d79b2dbf%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rff42cfa5e7d75b7c1af0e37589140a8f1999e578a75738740b244bd4%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rec7160382badd3ef4ad017a22f64a266c7188b9ba71394f0d321e2d4%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc774278135816e7afc943dc9fc78eb0764f2c84a2b96470a0187315c%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd49aabd984ed540c8ff7916d4d79405f3fa311d2fdbcf9ed307839a6%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
Related Vulnerabilities
CVE-2020-7794 Vulnerability in npm package buns
CVE-2023-46674 Vulnerability in maven package org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-hadoop
CVE-2022-45389 Vulnerability in maven package com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins:xpdev
CVE-2022-34197 Vulnerability in maven package org.jenkins-ci.plugins:sauce-ondemand
CVE-2014-0230 Vulnerability in maven package org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core