GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-7q4h-pj78-j7vg Authorization service vulnerable to DDos attacks in Apache CFX
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2021-22696
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- org.apache.cxf:cxf, org.apache.cxf:apache-cxf
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400, CWE-918
- Reviewed
- 2021-04-05
Affected packages
• Maven org.apache.cxf:cxf: >= 3.4.0, < 3.4.3 → fixed in 3.4.3
• Maven org.apache.cxf:cxf: < 3.3.10 → fixed in 3.3.10
• Maven org.apache.cxf:apache-cxf: >= 3.4.0, < 3.4.3 → fixed in 3.4.3
• Maven org.apache.cxf:apache-cxf: < 3.3.10 → fixed in 3.3.10
Description
CXF supports (via JwtRequestCodeFilter) passing OAuth 2 parameters via a JWT token as opposed to query parameters (see: The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: JWT Secured Authorization Request (JAR)). Instead of sending a JWT token as a "request" parameter, the spec also supports specifying a URI from which to retrieve a JWT token from via the "request_uri" parameter. CXF was not validating the "request_uri" parameter (apart from ensuring it uses "https) and was making a REST request to the parameter in the request to retrieve a token. This means that CXF was vulnerable to DDos attacks on the authorization server, as specified in section 10.4.1 of the spec. This issue affects Apache CXF versions prior to 3.4.3; Apache CXF versions prior to 3.3.10.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2021-22696 CXF supports (via JwtRequestCodeFilter) passing OAuth 2 parameters via a JWT token as opposed to query parameters (see: The OAuth 2.0… vulnerability
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22696 advisory
- https://github.com/apache/cxf/commit/40503a53914758759894f704bbf139ae89ace286 web
- https://github.com/apache/cxf/commit/aa789c5c4686597a7bdef2443909ab491fc2bc04 web
- https://cxf.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2021-22696.txt.asc web
- https://github.com/apache/cxf package
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6445001cc5f9a2bb1e6316993753306e054bdd1d702656b7cbe59045@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E web
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8651c06212c56294a1c0ea61a5ad7790c06502209c03f05c0c7c9914@%3Cdev.cxf.apache.org%3E web
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8651c06212c56294a1c0ea61a5ad7790c06502209c03f05c0c7c9914@%3Cusers.cxf.apache.org%3E web
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rec7160382badd3ef4ad017a22f64a266c7188b9ba71394f0d321e2d4@%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E web
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfb87e0bf3995e7d560afeed750fac9329ff5f1ad49da365129b7f89e@%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E web
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html web
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html web
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/04/02/2 web