[jira] [Created] (CXF-8162) JWE with multiple recipients does not work for AES CBC Encryption

["Frederik Libert (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Frederik Libert created CXF-8162:
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             Summary: JWE with multiple recipients does not work for AES CBC Encryption
                 Key: CXF-8162
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-8162
             Project: CXF
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: JAX-RS Security
    Affects Versions: 3.3.4
            Reporter: Frederik Libert


When encrypting for multiple recipients, the plaintext, the CEK, JWE Initialization Vector, and JWE Protected Header are shared by all recipients (which must be the case, since
 the ciphertext and Authentication Tag are also shared).

The Apache CXF API for encrypting the content with AES GCM allows this by initializing a ContentEncryptionProvider of type AesGcmContentEncryptionAlgorithm which can be used as reference when initializing the list of JweEncryptionProviders (which take a KeyEncryptionProvider and an ContentEncryptionProvider).

When using AES CBC, the API is different.

The class AesCbcContentEncryptionAlgorithm is a private innerclass of  JweEncryptionProvider AesCbcHmacJweEncryption so you can't initialize it once and reuse it in all JweEncryptionProviders of the list.

There is a workaround as the API allows to build the CEK and InitializationVector yourself (not very nice) but this method leads to an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException as there is a typo in the AesCbcHmacJweEncryption  when copying the CEK byte by byte internally.

This typo should be fixed but more importantly, the API for AES CBC encryption should allow the initialization of the ContentEncryptionProvider from outside the JweEncryptionProvider so it can be referenced in all JweEncryptionProviders.

Without that, you can only encrypt for 1 recipient or the validation will fail (invalid authentication tag) for all but 1 recipient.



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