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GHSA-7q4h-pj78-j7vg

Authorization service vulnerable to DDos attacks in Apache CFX

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2021-22696

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Maven org.apache.cxf:cxf >= 3.4.0, < 3.4.3 3.4.3
Maven org.apache.cxf:cxf < 3.3.10 3.3.10
Maven org.apache.cxf:apache-cxf >= 3.4.0, < 3.4.3 3.4.3
Maven org.apache.cxf:apache-cxf < 3.3.10 3.3.10

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

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