GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-5jc8-8xhv-g8qm Improper Input Validation in XFire

HIGH Published 2022-05-17 Modified 2024-02-14 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2012-5817
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.codehaus.xfire:xfire-core
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-295
Reviewed
2022-07-12

Affected packages

• Maven org.codehaus.xfire:xfire-core: <= 1.2.6 (no fix yet)

Description

Codehaus XFire 1.2.6 and earlier, as used in the Amazon EC2 API Tools Java library 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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2012-5817 Codehaus XFire 1.2.6 and earlier, as used in the Amazon EC2 API Tools Java library and other products, does not verify that the server… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness

References