CVE-2017-12624: Denial of Service attacks

November 14, 2017 (updated October 2, 2019)

This package supports sending and receiving attachments via either the JAX-WS or JAX-RS specifications. It is possible to craft a message attachment header that could lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack on a CXF web service provider. Both JAX-WS and JAX-RS services are vulnerable to this attack.

References

cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12624
github.com/apache/cxf/commit/8bd915bfd7735c248ad660059c6b6ad26cdbcdf6

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