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CVE-2012-4418
Apache Axis2 allows remote attackers to forge messages and bypass authentication via an "XML Signature wrapping attack."
- 5.8MediumCVSS base score
- 6.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Apache Axis2 allows remote attackers to forge messages and bypass authentication via an "XML Signature wrapping attack."
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 49 days later
· 49 days later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.0% · top 6.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.axis2:axis2GHSA-88r4-38gc-97p4 (opens in a new tab)
References
5
- [oss-security] 20120912 Re: CVE Request: Apache Axis2 XML Signature Wrapping Attack (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120912 CVE Request: Apache Axis2 XML Signature Wrapping Attack (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856755 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.nds.rub.de/media/nds/veroeffentlichungen/2012/08/22/BreakingSAML_3.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 55508 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-3150 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-88r4-38gc-97p4 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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