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Oracle released the quarterly critical patch updates on April 16th, 2019. Only one week later a zero-day vulnerability was identified by the KnownSec-404 security team. The vulnerability exists in Oracle Weblogic Server and has been labeled as CVE-2019-2725 and is also reported by the BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, Zero-Day-Schwachstelle in Oracle WebLogic Server, 25.04.2019). Affected modules for this vulnerability are the wls9_async_response package with its components wls9_async and wls-wsat. With the help…

WS-Security Username Token Profile is a simple authentication scheme for SOAP-webservices using username an password sent in the requests‘ WS-Security headers. The password is hashed using a salt and a timestamp (password digest) to prevent replay attacks. It is specified in this document. As this does not involve any message encryption it should not be used without transport encryption.
In this post I will show how I configured this for a webservice to be deployed on a recent Weblogic Server (12.2.1.2).