CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-5786
5.8 MEDIUM
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- 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
The wsdl_first_https sample code in distribution/src/main/release/samples/wsdl_first_https/src/main/ in Apache CXF before 2.7.0 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. NOTE: The vendor states that the sample had specifically used a flag to bypass the DN check
Affected configurations
• apache cxf (<= 2.6.17)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79983 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79983 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com