{"id":"CVE-2017-5656","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-5656","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:56:25.226Z","title":"Apache CXF's STSClient before 3.1.11 and 3.0.13 uses a flawed way of caching tokens that are associated with delegation tokens, which means that an attacker could craft a token which would return an identifer corresponding to a cached token for another…","description":"Apache CXF's STSClient before 3.1.11 and 3.0.13 uses a flawed way of caching tokens that are associated with delegation tokens, which means that an attacker could craft a token which would return an identifer corresponding to a cached token for another user.","published":"2017-04-18T16:59:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:20:59.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@apache.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-384"],"affected":["apache/cxf"],"epss":{"score":0.06827,"percentile":0.93989,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (6.83%). 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