Re: New security advisory for Apache CXF

[Hanno Böck <hanno () hboeck de>]

On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 15:32:32 +0000
Colm O hEigeartaigh <coheigea () apache org> wrote:

> A new security advisory has been released for Apache CXF:
>
> CVE-2015-5253
> <http://cxf.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2015-5253.txt.asc?version=1&modificationDate=1447433340000&api=v2>:
> Apache CXF SAML SSO processing is vulnerable to a wrapping attack

It's a bit hard to judge from the description what this is about.

Am I right to assume that this is a fix for the XML encryption issues
Juraj Somorovsky found? He just presented that at BH Amsterdam
yesterday.
Every app that is using XML encryption in any way should be checked for
that.
(and the tl;dr is: don't decrypt unauthenticated data)

https://www.blackhat.com/eu-15/briefings.html#how-to-break-xml-encryption-automatically

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