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axis — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2023-40743

** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** When integrating Apache Axis 1.x in an application, it may not have been obvious that looking up a service through "ServiceFactory.getService" allows potentially dangerous lookup mechanisms such as LDAP. When passing untrusted input to this API method, this could expose the application to DoS, SSRF and even attacks leading to RCE. As Axis 1 has been EOL we recommend you migrate to a different SOAP engine, such as Apache Axis 2/Java. As a workaround, you may review your code to verify no untrusted or unsanitized input is passed to "ServiceFactory.getService", or by applying the patch from https://github.com/apache/axis-axis1-java/commit/7e66753427466590d6def0125e448d2791723210 . The Apache Axis project does not expect to create an Axis 1.x release fixing this problem, though contributors that would like to work towards this are welcome.

Products
axis
Affected versions
1.4-28
Fixed versions
1.4-28+deb12u1, 1.4-29
CVEs
CVE-2023-40743
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 16:05 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-40743

core-osv · Original source

Published 5 Sept 2023, 15:15 UTC

** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** When integrating Apache Axis 1.x in an application, it may not have been obvious that looking up a service through "ServiceFactory.getService" allows potentially dangerous lookup mechanisms such as LDAP. When passing untrusted input to this API method, this could expose the application to DoS, SSRF and even attacks leading to RCE. As Axis 1 has been EOL we recommend you migrate to a different SOAP engine, such as Apache Axis 2/Java. As a workaround, you may review your code to verify no untrusted or unsanitized input is passed to "ServiceFactory.getService", or by applying the patch from https://github.com/apache/axis-axis1-java/commit/7e66753427466590d6def0125e448d2791723210 . The Apache Axis project does not expect to create an Axis 1.x release fixing this problem, though contributors that would like to work towards this are welcome.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-40743

axis

Fixed versions: 1.4-28+deb12u1

axis

Fixed versions: 1.4-29

axis

Fixed versions: 1.4-29

Complete source record
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