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Fencer Intel
critical 9.8

CVE-2012-0803 json

Improper Authentication in Apache CXF

published 2017-08-08 9 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-2p7x-jcr3-7p2c , EUVD-2022-2021

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.5%
EPSS 3.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The WS-SP UsernameToken policy in Apache CXF 2.4.5 and 2.5.1 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by sending an empty UsernameToken as part of a SOAP request.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.cxf:cxf 2.4.6, 2.5.2

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-0803 updated cvss 5.8

CXF: improper validation of UsernameToken policies

  • Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5 distribution
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.cxf:cxf
>=2.4.0, <2.4.6
>=2.5.0, <2.5.2
2.4.6
2.5.2

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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