🛡️ CVE-2011-2487 — wss4j

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-327 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm in Apache WSS4J

The implementations of PKCS#1 v1.5 key transport mechanism for XMLEncryption in JBossWS and Apache WSS4J before 1.6.5 is susceptible to a Bleichenbacher attack.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2011-2487 is classified as CWE-327: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm. An algorithm with known weaknesses is used, so the protection it appears to give does not hold.

Affected software

CVE-2011-2487 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • org.apache.ws.security:wss4j (fixed in 1.6.5)
  • wss4j:wss4j (fixed in 1.6.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 22 April 2022 and last revised on 16 April 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
www.nds.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com (Web)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-327
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-04-22
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-04-16
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.apache.ws.security:wss4j 1.6.5
wss4j:wss4j 1.6.5

References

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