CVE-2026-85257
Published:October 19, 2026
Updated:October 20, 2026
Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information vulnerability in Apache Camel CXF component.
This issue affects Apache Camel: from 4.0.0 before 4.18.5, from 4.19.0 before 4.22.1.
When a route behind a CXF SOAP consumer failed with an exception the service contract does not declare, the exception was described back to the SOAP client in the fault: CXF copies the message into the SOAP faultstring, and can be configured to place the stack trace in the fault detail. An external caller able to provoke a failure could therefore read internal detail about the deployment - class and package names, and whatever the exception message carries. Declared faults, annotated @WebFault, are a different matter: those are part of the published contract that clients are written against, and suppressing them would break the service rather than protect anything.
Upgrade to Apache Camel 4.23.0, which fixes the issue. Users on the 4.18.x LTS releases stream should upgrade to 4.18.5. Users on the 4.22.x LTS releases stream should upgrade to 4.22.1. A muteException consumer option, defaulting to true, replaces an undeclared route failure with a generic fault carrying no class name, message or stack trace. Faults the contract declares are reported exactly as before. Set muteException=false to restore the previous output. For deployments that cannot upgrade immediately, declare the exceptions the service is allowed to report and map every other failure onto one of them in an onException handler, so no undeclared exception reaches the fault.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/apache/camel.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=camel-4.15.0 <camel-4.18.5Fix Suggestion:
Update to version camel-4.18.5https://github.com/apache/camel.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=camel-4.19.0 <camel-4.22.1Fix Suggestion:
Update to version camel-4.22.1org.apache.camel:camel-cxf-soap (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=4.15.0 <4.18.5Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 4.18.5org.apache.camel:camel-cxf-soap (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=4.19.0 <4.22.1Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 4.22.1Related Resources (6)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
6.9
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
LOW
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
5.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information
EPSS
Base Score:
0.40