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Colm O hEigeartaigh reassigned CXF-9240:
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Assignee: Colm O hEigeartaigh
> OAuthJSONProvider.appendJsonPair() does not escape JSON string values —
> output injection / malformed JSON in introspect & token responses
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> Key: CXF-9240
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-9240
> Project: CXF
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: JAX-RS Security
> Affects Versions: 4.2.1
> Environment: Apache CXF 4.2.1, Java 11+, OAuth2 AS endpoints
> (introspect / token / error responses).
> Reporter: Guanping Zhang
> Assignee: Colm O hEigeartaigh
> Priority: Minor
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> OAuthJSONProvider.appendJsonPair() (approx. lines 206-217) wraps string
> values in double quotes but performs no JSON escaping of the value.
> Characters such as '"', '\' and control characters (newline, CR, tab, etc.)
> are emitted verbatim, producing structurally broken JSON or allowing
> injection of additional JSON content (CWE-74; violates RFC 8259 §7 string
> escaping).
> Responses serialized through this method include:
> - /introspect (username, client_id, scope)
> - /token (scope and custom parameters)
> - error responses (error_description)
> If an attacker can influence a serialized value that is later reflected in a
> response, the unescaped output can alter the JSON parsed by downstream
> clients. Impact is downstream-parser-dependent; this is primarily an
> output-encoding correctness defect with potential security impact.
> Suggested fix: apply proper JSON string escaping in appendJsonPair (escape
> '"', '\' and control characters per RFC 8259 §7), or delegate serialization
> to the existing JsonMapObjectReaderWriter, which handles escaping.
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