CVE-2026-44930

Apache CXF: LDAP Injection vulnerability in XKMS LDAP Repository

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 4.3
EPSS: EPSS 0.72 % · percentile 54 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-05-22
Updated: 2026-07-20
Assigner: apache
NVD status: Modified

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.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	redhat-SADP
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-90

Advisories

GHSA-pg32-686q-qh6x — Apache CXF has an LDAP injection vulnerability

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-31433
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-44930

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-1094 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0958 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 3.6.11
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 4.0.0 < 4.1.6
cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:4.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
Apache Software Foundation · Apache CXF	affected 4.2.0 < 4.2.1 ; affected 4.0.0 < 4.1.6 ; affected 0 < 3.6.11

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD