New Apache CXF releases and CVEs published

Apache CXF has released versions 3.5.5 and 3.4.10. Notable security upgrades in these releases include picking up a fix for CVE-2022-40152 in Woodstox, and a fix for CVE-2022-40150 in Jettison. In addition, two new CVEs are published for issues found directly in Apache CXF itself:

• CVE-2022-46363: Apache CXF directory listing / code exfiltration. A vulnerability in Apache CXF before versions 3.5.5 and 3.4.10 allows an attacker to perform a remote directory listing or code exfiltration. The vulnerability only applies when the CXFServlet is configured with both the static-resources-list and redirect-query-check attributes. These attributes are not supposed to be used together, and so the vulnerability can only arise if the CXF service is misconfigured.
• CVE-2022-46364: Apache CXF SSRF Vulnerability. A SSRF vulnerability in parsing the href attribute of XOP:Include in MTOM requests in versions of Apache CXF before 3.5.5 and 3.4.10 allows an attacker to perform SSRF style attacks on webservices that take at least one parameter of any type.

Thanks to thanat0s from Beijin Qihoo 360 adlab for reporting both issues to the project. The first issue is not really applicable in practice as it only arises on a misconfiguration. For the second issue, we restricted following MTOM URLs only to message attachments by default. It can be controlled via a new property "org.apache.cxf.attachment.xop.follow.urls" (which of course defaults to false).