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CVE-2021-22696: Apache CXF: OAuth 2 authorization service vulnerable to DDos attacks
From: Colm O hEigeartaigh <coheigea () apache org>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 10:47:26 +0100
Description: CXF supports (via JwtRequestCodeFilter) passing OAuth 2 parameters via a JWT token as opposed to query parameters (see: The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: JWT Secured Authorization Request (JAR)). Instead of sending a JWT token as a "request" parameter, the spec also supports specifying a URI from which to retrieve a JWT token from via the "request_uri" parameter. CXF was not validating the "request_uri" parameter (apart from ensuring it uses "https) and was making a REST request to the parameter in the request to retrieve a token. This means that CXF was vulnerable to DDos attacks on the authorization server, as specified in section 10.4.1 of the spec. This issue affects Apache CXF versions prior to 3.4.3; Apache CXF versions prior to 3.3.10. Reference: http://cxf.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2021-22696.txt.asc
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