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medium 5.3

CVE-2017-5653 json

Improper Certificate Validation in Apache CXF

published 2017-04-18 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-hgg6-8x62-m9gf , EUVD-2022-4142

cvss
5.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
11.2%
EPSS 11.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

JAX-RS XML Security streaming clients in Apache CXF before 3.1.11 and 3.0.13 do not validate that the service response was signed or encrypted, which allows remote attackers to spoof servers.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.cxf:cxf-core 3.0.13, 3.1.11

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-2017-5653 updated cvss 6.5

cxf: CXF JAX-RS XML Security streaming clients do not validate that the service response was signed or encrypted

  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 cxf
    under investigation
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3 Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:1832
  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 cxf Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 cxf Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 cxf Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 cxf Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 cxf Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 cxf
    +7 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 cxf Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 cxf Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 cxf Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 cxf Red Hat JBoss Portal 6 cxf Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5 cxf Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 cxf
    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

11.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.cxf:cxf-core
>=3.1.0, <3.1.11
<3.0.13
3.1.11
3.0.13

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache CXF

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

References

Sources

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