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Rewterz Threat Advisory – CVE-2015-0226 – Apache WSS4J Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

Apache WSS4J 1.6.5 contained a countermeasure for Bleichenbacher’s attack on XML Encryption, where the PKCS#1 v1.5 Key Transport Algorithm is used to encrypt symmetric keys as part of WS-Security. In particular, the fix avoided leaking information on whether decryption failed when decrypting the encrypted key or decrypting the message data.

Impact

Information disclosure

Affected Vendors

Apache

Affected Products

Apache WSS4J all versions prior to 1.6.17 and 2.0.2.

Remediation

Update to a fixed version

WSS4J 1.6.x : Should upgrade to 1.6.17 or later

WSS4J 2.0.x : Should upgrade to 2.0.2 or later

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