CVE-2017-12624
It is possible to craft a message attachment header that could lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack on a CXF web service provider.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.70%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Apache CXF supports sending and receiving attachments via either the JAX-WS or JAX-RS specifications. It is possible to craft a message attachment header that could lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack on a CXF web service provider. Both JAX-WS and JAX-RS services are vulnerable to this attack. From Apache CXF 3.2.1 and 3.1.14, message attachment headers that are greater than 300 characters will be rejected by default. This value is configurable via the property "attachment-max-header-size".
- CVSS 3.0
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 3.70% probability · 90th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- apache/cxf
- Source
- security@apache.org
EPSS moved from 7.5% on 21 September 2026 to 3.7% on 27 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
References
- http://cxf.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2017-12624.txt.ascIssue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101859Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040486Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2423
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2424
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2425
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2428
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r36e44ffc1a9b365327df62cdfaabe85b9a5637de102cea07d79b2dbf%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc774278135816e7afc943dc9fc78eb0764f2c84a2b96470a0187315c%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd49aabd984ed540c8ff7916d4d79405f3fa311d2fdbcf9ed307839a6%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rec7160382badd3ef4ad017a22f64a266c7188b9ba71394f0d321e2d4%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfb87e0bf3995e7d560afeed750fac9329ff5f1ad49da365129b7f89e%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rff42cfa5e7d75b7c1af0e37589140a8f1999e578a75738740b244bd4%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- http://cxf.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2017-12624.txt.ascIssue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101859Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040486Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2423
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2424
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2425
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2428
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r36e44ffc1a9b365327df62cdfaabe85b9a5637de102cea07d79b2dbf%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc774278135816e7afc943dc9fc78eb0764f2c84a2b96470a0187315c%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd49aabd984ed540c8ff7916d4d79405f3fa311d2fdbcf9ed307839a6%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rec7160382badd3ef4ad017a22f64a266c7188b9ba71394f0d321e2d4%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfb87e0bf3995e7d560afeed750fac9329ff5f1ad49da365129b7f89e%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rff42cfa5e7d75b7c1af0e37589140a8f1999e578a75738740b244bd4%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.