CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-5784

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-20

Description

Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier, as used in PayPal Payments Pro, PayPal Mass Pay, PayPal Transactional Information SOAP, the Java Message Service implementation in Apache ActiveMQ, 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 activemq (<= 5.7.0) • apache axis (<= 1.4) • apache axis • apache axis 1.0 • apache axis 1.1 • apache axis 1.2 • apache axis 1.2.1 • apache axis 1.3 • paypal mass pay • paypal payments pro • paypal transactional information soap

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-297 Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch weakness

References