Bug#611130: #611130/CVE-2010-2087 is unlikely to be fixed

[Miguel Landaeta]

tags 611130 + wontfix
severity 611130 important
thanks

Hi,

I was checking again what is the status of this bug and I found a statement
in RedHat bugtracker posted by David Jorm:

Statement:

This flaw affects applications using unencrypted client-side view states on Mojarra as shipped with JBoss Communications Platform 1.2.11 and 5.1.1, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2.0, 4.3.0 and 5.1.1, JBoss Enterprise BRMS Platform 5.1.0, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 and 5.1.1, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.2.0, 4.3.0 and 5.1.0, JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.1 and JBoss Web Framework Kit 1.1.0 and 1.2.0. Unencrypted client-side view states are fundamentally insecure and should not be used. Developers are advised to always enable encryption when creating JavaServer Faces (JSF) applications using client-side view state. When using the Mojarra implementation of JSF, this is achieved by adding the following snippet to the application's web.xml:
<context-param>
   <param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
   <param-value>client</param-value>
</context-param>
<env-entry>
   <env-entry-name>ClientStateSavingPassword</env-entry-name>
   <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
   <env-entry-value>INSERT_YOUR_PASSWORD</env-entry-value>
</env-entry>


So, IMO this looks like it is not going to be fixed anytime soon if ever.

Cheers,

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