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medium 5.0

CVE-2014-3584 json

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition in Apache CXF

published 2014-10-30 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-gw5j-77f9-v2g2 , EUVD-2022-4022

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.2%
EPSS 7.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The SamlHeaderInHandler in Apache CXF before 2.6.11, 2.7.x before 2.7.8, and 3.0.x before 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted SAML token in the authorization header of a request to a JAX-RS service.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-frontend-jaxrs 2.6.11, 2.7.8, 3.0.1

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-2014-3584 updated cvss 4.3

CXF: Denial of Service (DoS) via invalid JAX-RS SAML tokens

  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1 cxf
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 cxf, activemq, openshift-origin-cartridge-amq, openshift-origin-cartridge-fuse
    affected: no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0400
  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 Web Services Web Services Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 Web Services Web Services Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 Web Services Web Services Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 Web Services Web Services Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 cxf Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 Web Services Web Services
    +2 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 Web Services Web Services Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5 Web Services Web Services
    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

7.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-frontend-jaxrs
>=2.5.0, <2.6.11
>=2.7.0, <2.7.8
>=3.0.0, <3.0.1
2.6.11
2.7.8
3.0.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

References

Sources

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