Apache Camel OAuth reuses cached tokens across profiles
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Apache Camel from 4.19.0 before 4.22.2 caches OAuth client credentials tokens in a JVM-wide cache keyed only on the token endpoint and client ID (CWE-524). Profiles that share those values but request a different scope or use a different client secret receive each other's cached token, so an outbound request can carry a token issued for another profile's scope. A hostile or compromised receiving service can replay that token within its scope.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-06
Description from the CNA
Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information vulnerability in Apache Camel Oauth component. This issue affects Apache Camel: from 4.19.0 before 4.22.2. OAuthClientCredentialsTokenResolver obtains OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens through the client credentials grant on behalf of the components that authenticate their outbound calls with a named OAuth profile, such as camel-openai, camel-langchain4j-agent, camel-huggingface, camel-docling, camel-a2a, camel-spring-ai-chat and the IBM watsonx components, and of applications that call the OAuthClientAuthenticationFactory SPI directly. It kept the tokens it obtained in a static cache shared by every resolver instance and every CamelContext in the JVM, and keyed that cache on the token endpoint and the client ID only, although the token request also carries the client secret and the requested scope. Two profiles that share a token endpoint and a client ID but request different scopes, or authenticate with different client secrets, therefore mapped to the same cache entry: the profile that resolved a token first populated the entry, and the other profile was then handed that token, with no token request made under its own configuration, for as long as the token remained valid. Token caching is enabled by default, and pointing several profiles at one identity provider client is an ordinary use of the profile support rather than an opt-in to an insecure setting. The outcome is an outbound request that carries a token issued for another profile's scope, which can grant broader authority than the calling profile was configured for, or reach a service the token was not issued for; with identity providers that derive a token's audience from the requested scope, a different scope can mean a token for a different service altogether. A profile configured with a different client secret was likewise served the token obtained with the other secret, without authenticating with its own. The profiles are configured by the deployment, which is trusted, so no untrusted input reaches the cache: the party that gains is the service that receives a token it was not meant to receive, which, if hostile or compromised, can replay that token within its scope. Reaching the issue requires a deployment that defines more than one profile sharing a token endpoint and client ID while differing in scope or client secret. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.23.0, which fixes the issue. If users are on the 4.22.x releases stream, then they are suggested to upgrade to 4.22.2. The 4.19.x to 4.21.x release lines reached end of life before this issue was resolved and will not receive a fix, so deployments on them must move to a supported release. For deployments that cannot upgrade immediately, disable token caching on every OAuth profile that shares a token endpoint and client ID with another profile, by setting camel.oauth.NAME.cache-tokens=false for a named profile or camel.oauth.cache-tokens=false for the default one, so that each resolution requests a token with that profile’s own scope and client secret, at the cost of a token request on every resolution. Alternatively, register a separate client at the identity provider for each profile that needs a different scope or client secret, so that no two such profiles share a client ID.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
Upgrade Apache Camel to 4.22.2 on the 4.22.x stream or to 4.23.0, which fixes the issue. The 4.19.x to 4.21.x lines reached end of life before the fix and will not receive one, so move those deployments to a supported release. Until upgrading, set camel.oauth.cache-tokens=false (or camel.oauth.NAME.cache-tokens=false for a named profile) on every profile that shares a token endpoint and client ID with another profile.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-06
- Fix · CNA Apache Camel (Apache Software Foundation) Fixed in 4.22.2
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-26 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-94386
- 2026-10-26 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-10-27 Alias added: GHSA-m6q9-jx43-w2vp
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-11-06 CVSS score added · Red Hat
References
Patch 2
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Sources
- CVE-2026-94386 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-94386 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-m6q9-jx43-w2vp · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-94386 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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