CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-5783

5.8 MEDIUM Published 2012-11-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-11-04
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-295

Description

Apache Commons HttpClient 3.x, as used in Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) merchant Java SDK and other products, 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

• apache httpclient 3.1 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 15.04

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness

References