CVE-2012-5784
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.8 · Improper input validation
5.8CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)6%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00007.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00022.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0269.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0683.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0037.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51219
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56408Advisory
- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdfExploit