CVE-2017-5656: Session Fixation

April 18, 2017 (updated January 16, 2020)

Apache CXF’s STSClient 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.

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/97971
www.securitytracker.com/id/1038282
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1832
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1694
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5656

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