SecurityTokenServiceProvider does not handle exceptions properly ----------------------------------------------------------------
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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira