CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-5662
5.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-05-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-310
Description
x3270 before 3.3.12ga12 does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.
Affected configurations
• paul mattes x3270 (<= 3.3.12)
• paul mattes x3270 3.3.5
• paul mattes x3270 3.3.6
• paul mattes x3270 3.3.7
• paul mattes x3270 3.3.8
• paul mattes x3270 3.3.9
• paul mattes x3270 3.3.10
• paul mattes x3270 3.3.11
• paul mattes x3270 3.3.12
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://osvdb.org/91572 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52650 secunia.com
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/x3270/files/x3270/3.3.12ga12/ sourceforge.net
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889373 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82984 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://osvdb.org/91572 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52650 secunia.com
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/x3270/files/x3270/3.3.12ga12/ sourceforge.net
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889373 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82984 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com