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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-5656

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.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:02 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-5656

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Apr 2017, 16:59 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2017-5656
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5656",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-5656",
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:24.046792371Z",
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      "references": [
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r36e44ffc1a9b365327df62cdfaabe85b9a5637de102cea07d79b2dbf%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc774278135816e7afc943dc9fc78eb0764f2c84a2b96470a0187315c%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd49aabd984ed540c8ff7916d4d79405f3fa311d2fdbcf9ed307839a6%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rec7160382badd3ef4ad017a22f64a266c7188b9ba71394f0d321e2d4%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfb87e0bf3995e7d560afeed750fac9329ff5f1ad49da365129b7f89e%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rff42cfa5e7d75b7c1af0e37589140a8f1999e578a75738740b244bd4%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1832",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1694"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 431059,
  "published_at": "2017-04-18T16:59:00.197+00:00"
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