CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-5824

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

Trillian 5.1.0.19 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, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-4831.

Affected configurations

• cerulean studios trillian 5.1.0.19

Weakness · CWE (1)

CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

CWE-297 Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch weakness

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/51190 Broken Link
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf Exploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56454 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79915 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/51190 Broken Link
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf Exploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56454 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79915 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry