CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-3596

5.8 MEDIUM Published 2014-08-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-08-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Description

The getCN function in Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier does not properly 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 a certificate with a subject that specifies a common name in a field that is not the CN field. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-5784.

Affected configurations

• apache axis (<= 1.4) • apache axis 1.0 • apache axis 1.1 • apache axis 1.2 • apache axis 1.2.1 • apache axis 1.3

References