{ "document": { "aggregate_severity": { "namespace": "https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/", "text": "Important" }, "category": "csaf_security_advisory", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "text": "Copyright © Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.", "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/" } }, "lang": "en", "notes": [ { "category": "summary", "text": "An update for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 which fixes one\nsecurity issue is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal.\n\nThe Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having\nimportant security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)\nbase score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the\nCVE link in the References section.", "title": "Topic" }, { "category": "general", "text": "JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications,\nwhich integrates the JBoss Application Server with JBoss Hibernate and\nJBoss Seam.\n\nXML encryption backwards compatibility attacks were found against various\nframeworks, including Apache CXF. An attacker could force a server to use\ninsecure, legacy cryptosystems, even when secure cryptosystems were enabled\non endpoints. By forcing the use of legacy cryptosystems, flaws such as\nCVE-2011-1096 and CVE-2011-2487 would be exposed, allowing plain text to be\nrecovered from cryptograms and symmetric keys. This issue affected both the\nJBoss Web Services CXF (jbossws-cxf) and JBoss Web Services Native\n(jbossws-native) stacks. (CVE-2012-5575)\n\nRed Hat would like to thank Tibor Jager, Kenneth G. Paterson and Juraj\nSomorovsky of Ruhr-University Bochum for reporting this issue.\n\nIf you are using jbossws-cxf, then automatic checks to prevent this flaw\nare only run when WS-SecurityPolicy is used to enforce security\nrequirements. It is best practice to use WS-SecurityPolicy to enforce\nsecurity requirements.\n\nIf you are using jbossws-native, the fix for this flaw is implemented by\ntwo new configuration parameters in the 'encryption' element. This element\ncan be a child of 'requires' in both client and server wsse configuration\ndescriptors (set on a per-application basis via the application's\njboss-wsse-server.xml and jboss-wsse-client.xml files). The new attributes\nare 'algorithms' and 'keyWrapAlgorithms'. These attributes should contain a\nblank space or comma separated list of algorithm IDs that are allowed for\nthe encrypted incoming message, both for encryption and private key\nwrapping. For backwards compatibility, no algorithm checks are performed by\ndefault for empty lists or missing attributes.\n\nFor example (do not include the line break in your configuration):\n\nencryption algorithms=\"aes-192-gcm aes-256-gcm\"\nkeyWrapAlgorithms=\"rsa_oaep\"\n\nSpecifies that incoming messages are required to be encrypted, and that the\nonly permitted encryption algorithms are AES-192 and 256 in GCM mode, and\nRSA-OAEP only for key wrapping.\n\nBefore performing any decryption, the jbossws-native stack will verify that\neach algorithm specified in the incoming messages is included in the\nallowed algorithms lists from these new encryption element attributes. The\nalgorithm values to be used for 'algorithms' and 'keyWrapAlgorithms' are\nthe same as for 'algorithm' and 'keyWrapAlgorithm' in the 'encrypt'\nelement.\n\nWarning: Before applying this update, back up your existing JBoss\nEnterprise Application Platform installation (including all applications\nand configuration files).\n\nAll users of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 as provided from\nthe Red Hat Customer Portal are advised to apply this update.", "title": "Details" }, { "category": "legal_disclaimer", "text": "This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.", "title": "Terms of Use" } ], "publisher": { "category": "vendor", "contact_details": "https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/", "issuing_authority": "Red Hat Product Security is responsible for vulnerability handling across all Red Hat products and services.", "name": "Red Hat Product Security", "namespace": "https://www.redhat.com" }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0875", "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0875" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important", "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=5.2.0", "url": "https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=5.2.0" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "http://ws.apache.org/wss4j/best_practice.html", "url": "http://ws.apache.org/wss4j/best_practice.html" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "http://cxf.apache.org/cve-2012-5575.html", "url": "http://cxf.apache.org/cve-2012-5575.html" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "880443", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880443" }, { "category": "self", "summary": "Canonical URL", "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2013/rhsa-2013_0875.json" } ], "title": "Red Hat Security Advisory: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 security update", "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2026-05-14T22:17:00+00:00", "generator": { "date": "2026-05-14T22:17:00+00:00", "engine": { "name": "Red Hat SDEngine", "version": "4.8.0" } }, "id": "RHSA-2013:0875", "initial_release_date": "2013-05-28T17:36:00+00:00", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2013-05-28T17:36:00+00:00", "number": "1", "summary": "Initial version" }, { "date": "2019-02-20T12:45:29+00:00", "number": "2", "summary": "Last updated version" }, { "date": "2026-05-14T22:17:00+00:00", "number": "3", "summary": "Last generated version" } ], "status": "final", "version": "3" } }, "product_tree": { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_name", "name": "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2", "product": { "name": "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2", "product_id": "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2", "product_identification_helper": { "cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5.2.0" } } } ], "category": "product_family", "name": "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform" } ], "category": "vendor", "name": "Red Hat" } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "acknowledgments": [ { "names": [ "Tibor Jager", "Kenneth G. Paterson", "Juraj Somorovsky" ], "organization": "Ruhr-University Bochum" } ], "cve": "CVE-2012-5575", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-327", "name": "Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm" }, "discovery_date": "2012-11-15T00:00:00+00:00", "ids": [ { "system_name": "Red Hat Bugzilla ID", "text": "880443" } ], "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "Apache CXF 2.5.x before 2.5.10, 2.6.x before CXF 2.6.7, and 2.7.x before CXF 2.7.4 does not verify that a specified cryptographic algorithm is allowed by the WS-SecurityPolicy AlgorithmSuite definition before decrypting, which allows remote attackers to force CXF to use weaker cryptographic algorithms than intended and makes it easier to decrypt communications, aka \"XML Encryption backwards compatibility attack.\"", "title": "Vulnerability description" }, { "category": "summary", "text": "apache-cxf: XML encryption backwards compatibility attacks", "title": "Vulnerability summary" }, { "category": "general", "text": "The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.", "title": "CVSS score applicability" } ], "product_status": { "fixed": [ "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2" ] }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "Canonical URL", "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5575" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "RHBZ#880443", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880443" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-5575", "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-5575" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5575", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5575" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "http://cxf.apache.org/cve-2012-5575.html", "url": "http://cxf.apache.org/cve-2012-5575.html" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "http://www.nds.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/research/publications/backwards-compatibility/", "url": "http://www.nds.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/research/publications/backwards-compatibility/" } ], "release_date": "2013-03-08T00:00:00+00:00", "remediations": [ { "category": "vendor_fix", "date": "2013-05-28T17:36:00+00:00", "details": "The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must\nlog in to download the update). Before applying the update, back up your\nexisting JBoss Enterprise Application Platform installation (including all\napplications and configuration files).\n\nThe JBoss server process must be restarted for this update to take effect.", "product_ids": [ "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2" ], "restart_required": { "category": "none" }, "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0875" } ], "scores": [ { "cvss_v2": { "accessComplexity": "LOW", "accessVector": "NETWORK", "authentication": "NONE", "availabilityImpact": "NONE", "baseScore": 7.8, "confidentialityImpact": "COMPLETE", "integrityImpact": "NONE", "vectorString": "AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N", "version": "2.0" }, "products": [ "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2" ] } ], "threats": [ { "category": "impact", "details": "Important" } ], "title": "apache-cxf: XML encryption backwards compatibility attacks" } ] }