CVE-2012-5783
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2012-5783 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLIC |
| Assigner | [email protected] |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2012-11-04 22:55:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2021-04-23 17:28:00 UTC |
| Description | Apache 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)
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Customer Portal | REDHAT | rhn.redhat.com | |
| Red Hat Customer Portal | REDHAT | rhn.redhat.com | |
| 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 |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
Legacy QID Mappings
- 330135 IBM Advanced Interactive eXecutive (AIX) Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) server spoof due to Apache Commons HttpClient (commonshttp_advisory)