CVE-2020-1954: Apache Cxf

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 6.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apache CXF has the ability to integrate with JMX by registering an InstrumentationManager extension with the CXF bus. If the ‘createMBServerConnectorFactory‘ property of the default InstrumentationManagerImpl is not disabled, then it is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle (MITM) style attack. An attacker on the same host can connect to the registry and rebind the entry to another server, thus acting as a proxy to the original. They are then able to gain access to all of the information that is sent and received over JMX.

Affected products

• Apache Cxf: before 3.2.13 (fixed in 3.2.13); from 3.3.0, before 3.3.6 (fixed in 3.3.6)
• Netapp Oncommand Workflow Automation: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Snapmanager: affected versions not specified
• Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router: from 8.0.0, up to and including 8.2.2
• Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router Idih:: from 8.0.0, up to and including 8.2.2
• Oracle Communications Element Manager: from 8.2.0, up to and including 8.2.2
• Oracle Communications Session Report Manager: from 8.2.0, up to and including 8.2.2
• Oracle Communications Session Route Manager: from 8.2.0, up to and including 8.2.2
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Base Platform: version 13.2.1.0 only
• Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools: version 8.56 only

Published 2020-04-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.