CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-12624

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-11-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-11-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Apache CXF supports sending and receiving attachments via either the JAX-WS or JAX-RS specifications. It is possible to craft a message attachment header that could lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack on a CXF web service provider. Both JAX-WS and JAX-RS services are vulnerable to this attack. From Apache CXF 3.2.1 and 3.1.14, message attachment headers that are greater than 300 characters will be rejected by default. This value is configurable via the property "attachment-max-header-size".

Affected configurations

• apache cxf (>= 3.0.0 < 3.0.16) • apache cxf (>= 3.1.0 < 3.1.14) • apache cxf (>= 3.2.0 < 3.2.1)

References