Major Description
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.