CVE-2012-2378: Apache Cxf

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apache CXF 2.4.5 through 2.4.7, 2.5.1 through 2.5.3, and 2.6.x before 2.6.1, does not properly enforce child policies of a WS-SecurityPolicy 1.1 SupportingToken policy on the client side, which allows remote attackers to bypass the (1) AlgorithmSuite, (2) SignedParts, (3) SignedElements, (4) EncryptedParts, and (5) EncryptedElements policies.

Affected products

• Apache Cxf: version 2.4.5 only; version 2.4.6 only; version 2.4.7 only; version 2.5.1 only; version 2.5.2 only; version 2.5.3 only; …

Published 2013-01-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.