CVE-2020-1954

17

FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-1954 describes a man-in-the-middle (MITM) vulnerability in Apache CXF, affecting products from Apache, NetApp, and Oracle. If the 'createMBServerConnectorFactory' property is not disabled in the InstrumentationManagerImpl, an attacker on the same host can rebind the JMX registry entry, acting as a proxy to intercept sensitive information. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.3 (Medium), indicating a network-adjacent attack with high confidentiality impact and high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 3.2.13CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf::::::::
		>= 3.3.0, < 3.3.6CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf::::::::
		>= 8.0.0, <= 8.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:communications_diameter_signaling_router::::::::
		>= 8.2.0, <= 8.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:communications_element_manager::::::::
		>= 8.2.0, <= 8.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:communications_session_report_manager::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

ADJACENT_NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

1.6

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

6.15%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

92.7%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-28

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0615 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 1,749 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (98)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-managementFixed in: 3.2.13

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-managementFixed in: 3.3.6

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-activemq-artemis-0:2.9.0-5.redhat_00011.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-activemq-artemis-native-1:1.0.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-apache-commons-codec-0:1.14.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-apache-commons-lang-0:3.10.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-apache-cxf-0:3.3.7-1.redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-artemis-native-1:1.0.2-3.redhat_1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-bouncycastle-0:1.65.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-glassfish-jsf-0:2.3.9-11.SP12_redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-hal-console-0:3.2.10-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-hibernate-0:5.3.18-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-httpcomponents-client-0:4.5.12-1.redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-httpcomponents-core-0:4.4.13-1.redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-jberet-0:1.3.7-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-jboss-invocation-0:1.5.3-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-jboss-logmanager-0:2.1.17-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-jboss-server-migration-0:1.7.2-2.Final_redhat_00002.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-jboss-xnio-base-0:3.7.9-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-jgroups-0:4.1.10-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-narayana-0:5.9.9-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-picketbox-0:5.0.3-8.Final_redhat_00007.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-picketlink-bindings-0:2.5.5-25.SP12_redhat_00013.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-snakeyaml-0:1.26.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-undertow-0:2.0.31-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-velocity-0:2.2.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-0:7.3.3-4.GA_redhat_00004.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-elytron-0:1.10.8-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-transaction-client-0:1.1.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-ws-commons-XmlSchema-0:2.2.5-1.redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: eap7-xerces-j2-0:2.12.0-2.SP03_redhat_00001.1.el6eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-activemq-artemis-0:2.9.0-5.redhat_00011.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-activemq-artemis-native-1:1.0.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-apache-commons-codec-0:1.14.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-apache-commons-lang-0:3.10.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-apache-cxf-0:3.3.7-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-artemis-native-1:1.0.2-3.redhat_1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-bouncycastle-0:1.65.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-glassfish-jsf-0:2.3.9-11.SP12_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-hal-console-0:3.2.10-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-hibernate-0:5.3.18-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-httpcomponents-client-0:4.5.12-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-httpcomponents-core-0:4.4.13-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jberet-0:1.3.7-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jboss-invocation-0:1.5.3-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jboss-logmanager-0:2.1.17-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jboss-server-migration-0:1.7.2-2.Final_redhat_00002.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jboss-xnio-base-0:3.7.9-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jgroups-0:4.1.10-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-narayana-0:5.9.9-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-picketbox-0:5.0.3-8.Final_redhat_00007.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-picketlink-bindings-0:2.5.5-25.SP12_redhat_00013.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-snakeyaml-0:1.26.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-undertow-0:2.0.31-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-velocity-0:2.2.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-0:7.3.3-4.GA_redhat_00004.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-elytron-0:1.10.8-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-transaction-client-0:1.1.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-ws-commons-XmlSchema-0:2.2.5-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-xerces-j2-0:2.12.0-2.SP03_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-activemq-artemis-0:2.9.0-5.redhat_00011.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-activemq-artemis-native-1:1.0.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-apache-commons-codec-0:1.14.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-apache-commons-lang-0:3.10.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-apache-cxf-0:3.3.7-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-artemis-native-1:1.0.2-3.redhat_1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-bouncycastle-0:1.65.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-glassfish-jsf-0:2.3.9-11.SP12_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-hal-console-0:3.2.10-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-hibernate-0:5.3.18-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-httpcomponents-core-0:4.4.13-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-jberet-0:1.3.7-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-jboss-invocation-0:1.5.3-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-jboss-logmanager-0:2.1.17-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-jboss-server-migration-0:1.7.2-2.Final_redhat_00002.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-jboss-xnio-base-0:3.7.9-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-jgroups-0:4.1.10-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-narayana-0:5.9.9-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-picketbox-0:5.0.3-8.Final_redhat_00007.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-picketlink-bindings-0:2.5.5-25.SP12_redhat_00013.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-snakeyaml-0:1.26.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-undertow-0:2.0.31-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-velocity-0:2.2.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-0:7.3.3-4.GA_redhat_00004.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-elytron-0:1.10.8-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-transaction-client-0:1.1.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-ws-commons-XmlSchema-0:2.2.5-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-xerces-j2-0:2.12.0-2.SP03_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.4.3Fixed in: cxf-core

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHDM 7.9.0Fixed in: cxf-core

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHPAM 7.9.0Fixed in: cxf-core

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-httpcomponents-client-0:4.5.12-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: EAP 7.3.3Fixed in: cxf-core

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: EAP-CD 20 Tech PreviewFixed in: cxf-core

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Fuse 7Fixed in: cxf-core

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Application RuntimesFixed in: cxf-core

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat support for Spring BootFixed in: cxf-core

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-ffm7-7r8g-77xmmedium

Apache CXF JMX Integration is vulnerable to a MITM attack

redhatCVE-2020-1954Low

cxf: JMX integration is vulnerable to a MITM attack

References

cxf.apache.org / security-advisories.data/CVE-2020-1954.txt.asc

Vendor Advisory

lists.apache.org / thread.html/rd49aabd984ed540c8ff7916d4d79405f3fa311d2fdbcf9ed307839a6%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E

lists.apache.org / thread.html/rec7160382badd3ef4ad017a22f64a266c7188b9ba71394f0d321e2d4%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E

lists.apache.org / thread.html/rfb87e0bf3995e7d560afeed750fac9329ff5f1ad49da365129b7f89e%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E

security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20220210-0001

PatchThird Party Advisory

oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

PatchThird Party Advisory