SecurityTokenServiceProvider does not handle exceptions properly
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                 Key: CXF-3693
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-3693
             Project: CXF
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 2.4.1
            Reporter: Colm O hEigeartaigh
            Assignee: Colm O hEigeartaigh
             Fix For: 2.4.2, 2.5



The SecurityTokenServiceProvider shipped from CXF 2.4 onwards does not handle 
exceptions properly. There are three issues:

1) For an exception thrown in an STS implementation, the provider returns a 
reflection error message as the error String. This is because there is no 
specific check for an InvocationTargetException.
2) The exception stacktrace is returned as a Detail, which might reveal 
internal information to an attacker
3) There is no way to send back the WS-Trust standard error code/Strings.

Points 1 and 2 are easily fixed. Point 3 will be fixed by extending the 
STSException so that a FaultCode (QName) can be set. If it is set on the 
exception, the standard code/String will be returned, otherwise the error 
message of the exception will be returned.

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