CVE-2017-5656

mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.068 · 94 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

6.83% (94th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

6 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Apache CXF's STSClient before 3.1.11 and 3.0.13 uses a flawed way of caching tokens that are associated with delegation tokens, which means that an attacker could craft a token which would return an identifer corresponding to a cached token for another user.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.06.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-384USprimaryCWE-384US

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Apache Software Foundation Apache CXF≤ versions before 3.0.13enisa_euvdEU
Apache Software Foundation Apache CXF≤ 3.1.x before 3.1.11enisa_euvdEU
apache cxf3.0.0 → 3.0.13nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache cxf3.1.0 → 3.1.11nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.apache.cxf:cxf-core< 3.0.13osvUSpkg:maven/org.apache.cxf/cxf-core
Maven org.apache.cxf:cxf-core3.1.0 → 3.1.11osvUSpkg:maven/org.apache.cxf/cxf-core

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-v936-x3j5-c76jSession Fixation in Apache CXF2022-05-13ghsa · osvUS
Apache CXF's STSClient before 3.1.11 and 3.0.13 uses a flawed way of caching tokens that are associated with delegation tokens, which means that an attacker could craft a token which would return an identifer corresponding to a cached token for another user.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-04-18modified 2026-06-17

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references (35)

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