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JRE XML Authentication Bypass

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JRE XML Authentication Bypass

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
07/14/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/18/2009
Modified
09/13/2018

Description

The design of the W3C XML Signature Syntax and Processing (XMLDsig) recommendation, as implemented in the Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 14 and earlier uses a parameter that defines an HMAC truncation length (HMACOutputLength) but does not require a minimum for this length. This allows attackers to spoof HMAC-based signatures and bypass authentication by specifying a truncation length with a small number of bits.

Solution(s)

  • jre-upgrade-latest

References

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