CVE-2012-5783

Summary

CVECVE-2012-5783
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-11-04 22:55:00 UTC
Updated2021-04-23 17:28:00 UTC
DescriptionApache Commons HttpClient 3.x, as used in Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) merchant Java SDK 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-295

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Amazon Flexible Payments Service - All All All
Application Amazon Flexible Payments Service - All All All
Application Apache Commons-httpclient 3.0 All All All
Application Apache Commons-httpclient 3.0 All All All
Application Apache Httpclient 3.1 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.04 All All All

References

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Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
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www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf MISC www.cs.utexas.edu Exploit
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
USN-2769-1: Apache Commons HttpClient vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
[HTTPCLIENT-1265] Insecure certificate validation CVE-2012-5783 - ASF JIRA CONFIRM issues.apache.org
openSUSE-SU-2013:0622-1: moderate: jakarta-commons-httpclient: enhance S SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
openSUSE-SU-2013:0623-1: moderate: jakarta-commons-httpclient3: enhance SUSE lists.opensuse.org
openSUSE-SU-2013:0638-1: moderate: jakarta-commons-httpclient3: enhance SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
openSUSE-SU-2013:0354-1: moderate: jakarta-commons-httpclient3: Add SSL SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
58073 BID www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 330135 IBM Advanced Interactive eXecutive (AIX) Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) server spoof due to Apache Commons HttpClient (commonshttp_advisory)
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