CVE-2026-59099
Apereo CAS 7.3.0 before 8.0.0-RC6 contains a cryptographic vulnerability that allows remote unauthenticated attackers to recover plaintext conversation state by exploiting AES-GCM initialization vector reuse across the server lifetime.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.55%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Apereo CAS 7.3.0 before 8.0.0-RC6 contains a cryptographic vulnerability that allows remote unauthenticated attackers to recover plaintext conversation state by exploiting AES-GCM initialization vector reuse across the server lifetime. Attackers can collect multiple client-side webflow execution tokens from the unauthenticated login page and perform known-plaintext analysis to decrypt the webflow conversation state due to keystream reuse caused by a fixed all-zero IV paired with the same encryption key.
- CVSS 4.0
- 9.3 CRITICALCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.55% probability · 44th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-323
- Source
- disclosure@vulncheck.com
References
- https://apereo.github.io/2026/06/18/vuln/
- https://github.com/apereo/cas/commit/22c6f4adf738852782309b523b4e80371057f2d0
- https://github.com/apereo/cas/releases/tag/v8.0.0-RC6
- https://github.com/geo-chen/oss/blob/main/cas.md
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/apereo-cas-rc6-aes-gcm-nonce-reuse-information-disclosure
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.