Bug 681916 (CVE-2011-1096) - CVE-2011-1096 jbossws: Prone to character encoding pattern attack (XML Encryption flaw)
Summary: CVE-2011-1096 jbossws: Prone to character encoding pattern attack (XML Encryp...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-1096
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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: 745407 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 757636 855247 855248 855249 910980 910981
Blocks: 713551 745417 789173 835396 849517
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Reported: 2011-03-03 15:22 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2026-05-14 15:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-02-26 21:03:35 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1330 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.3.0 security update 2012-10-03 19:08:59 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1344 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.2.2 security update 2012-10-08 20:42:36 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0191 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 update 2013-01-24 23:30:08 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0192 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 update 2013-01-24 23:28:23 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0193 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 update 2013-01-24 23:42:29 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0194 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 update 2013-01-24 23:08:14 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0195 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.2.0 update 2013-01-24 23:41:24 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0196 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.2.0 update 2013-01-24 23:55:46 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0197 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.2.0 update 2013-01-24 23:54:22 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0198 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.2.0 update 2013-01-25 00:07:17 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0221 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: JBoss Enterprise BRMS Platform 5.3.1 update 2013-02-01 01:23:18 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0261 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3.0 CP10 security update 2013-02-14 23:31:29 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0569 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: JBoss Web Services security update 2013-02-26 23:16:10 UTC

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-03-03 15:22:49 UTC 
Tibor Jager, Juraj Somorovsky, Meiko Jensen, and Jorg Schwenk
described an attack technique against W3C XML Encryption Standard,
when the block ciphers were used in cipher-block chaining (CBC)
mode of operation. A remote attacker, aware of a cryptographic
weakness of the CBC mode could use this flaw to conduct
chosen-ciphertext attacks, leading to the recovery of the entire
plaintext of a particular cryptogram by examining of the differences
between SOAP responses, sent from JBossWS, J2EE Web Services server.

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Juraj Somorovsky of Ruhr-University Bochum
for reporting this issue.
Comment 12 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-03-09 15:52:27 UTC 
The CVE identifier of CVE-2011-1096 has been assigned to this issue.
Comment 30 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-10-24 09:05:39 UTC 
External references and articles:
[1] http://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2011/paper_list.shtml
[2] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2046756&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFID=61633880&CFTOKEN=38378828
[3] http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC76651
[4] http://aktuell.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pm2011/pm00330.html.de
[5] http://www.csoonline.com/article/692366/widely-used-encryption-standard-is-insecure-say-experts
Comment 46 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-18 17:45:01 UTC 
*** Bug 745407 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 48 David Jorm 2012-03-12 02:43:19 UTC 
This issue is now resolved in JBoss AS 7.1.1.Final.
Comment 53 Murray McAllister 2012-10-03 07:11:19 UTC 
When a fix is made available for the product you are using, the fix will
not be automatically applied. After installing the fix, configure your
applications that use WS-Security encryption to use GCM-based algorithms by
editing their WSDL file. The following example uses an AES-128 Algorithm
with GCM mode:

<sp:AlgorithmSuite>
    <wsp:Policy>
        <sp-cxf:Basic128GCM xmlns:sp-cxf="http://cxf.apache.org/custom/security-policy"/>
    </wsp:Policy>
</sp:AlgorithmSuite>

For JBoss Enterprise Application 4.3.0 and other JBoss 4.x products, you should instead update the encrypt element of all jboss-ws-security configuration to specify a GCM algorithm. The following is an example directive: 

<encrypt type="x509v3" algorithm="aes-128-gcm" alias="wsse" />
Comment 54 errata-xmlrpc 2012-10-03 15:10:12 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.3.0

Via RHSA-2012:1330 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1330.html
Comment 55 errata-xmlrpc 2012-10-08 16:43:41 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.2.2

Via RHSA-2012:1344 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1344.html
Comment 56 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-24 18:08:51 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0

Via RHSA-2013:0194 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0194.html
Comment 57 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-24 18:32:08 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  JBEAP 5 for RHEL 5

Via RHSA-2013:0192 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0192.html
Comment 58 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-24 18:32:54 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  JBEAP 5 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2013:0191 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0191.html
Comment 59 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-24 18:45:12 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  JBEWP 5 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2013:0195 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0195.html
Comment 60 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-24 18:45:57 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  JBEAP 5 for RHEL 4

Via RHSA-2013:0193 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0193.html
Comment 61 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-24 18:58:12 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  JBEWP 5 for RHEL 4

Via RHSA-2013:0197 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0197.html
Comment 62 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-24 18:59:04 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  JBEWP 5 for RHEL 5

Via RHSA-2013:0196 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0196.html
Comment 63 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-24 19:07:53 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.2.0

Via RHSA-2013:0198 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0198.html
Comment 64 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-31 20:30:48 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  JBoss Enterprise BRMS Platform 5.3.1

Via RHSA-2013:0221 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0221.html
Comment 65 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-14 18:32:51 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

 JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3.0 CP10

Via RHSA-2013:0261 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0261.html
Comment 66 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-26 18:19:12 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 CP05
  JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 CP07

Via RHSA-2013:0569 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0569.html
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