Duty Analyst: Joseph McCarthy

CVE-2026-44930

Published: 2026-05-22 13:16:23 | Last modified: 2026-05-22 22:16:57

CRITICAL CVSS 9.8
No EPSS data

Description

An LDAP injection vulnerability in the LDAP Certificate repository of the XKMS server in Apache CXF may allow an attacker to retrieve arbitrary certificates from the repository. 
Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 4.2.1, 4.1.6 or 3.6.11, which fix this issue.

CVSS details

Severity
critical
Score
9.8
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

This CVE is not currently listed in the EPSS dataset.

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