CVE-2012-5575: Apache Cxf

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 6.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apache CXF 2.5.x before 2.5.10, 2.6.x before CXF 2.6.7, and 2.7.x before CXF 2.7.4 does not verify that a specified cryptographic algorithm is allowed by the WS-SecurityPolicy AlgorithmSuite definition before decrypting, which allows remote attackers to force CXF to use weaker cryptographic algorithms than intended and makes it easier to decrypt communications, aka "XML Encryption backwards compatibility attack."

Affected products

• Apache Cxf: version 2.5.0 only; version 2.5.1 only; version 2.5.2 only; version 2.5.3 only; version 2.5.4 only; version 2.5.5 only; …
• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: version 5.0.0 only
• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform: version 4.3.0 only
• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Soa Platform: version 4.3.0 only
• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Platform: version 5.2.0 only
• Red Hat JBoss Fuse Esb Enterprise: version 7.1.0 only

Published 2013-08-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.