Cryptographic issues in Enterprise Security API - CVE-2013-5960

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Cryptographic issues in Enterprise Security API - CVE-2013-5960

Published: December 29, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU84855
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5960
CWE-ID: CWE-310
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to authenticated-encryption feature in the symmetric-encryption implementation in the OWASP Enterprise Security API (ESAPI) does not properly resist tampering with serialized ciphertext. A remote attacker can bypass intended cryptographic protection mechanisms via an attack against the intended cipher mode in a non-default configuration


Affected software

Enterprise Security API
IBM Sterling B2B Integrator

How to mitigate CVE-2013-5960

Install updates from vendor's website.

Enterprise Security API - update to 2.1.0.1
IBM Sterling B2B Integrator - addressed in versions 6.0.3.7, 6.1.0.6, 6.1.1.2, 6.1.2.1

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