CVE-2012-5784

Summary

CVECVE-2012-5784
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-11-04 22:55:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:12:00 UTC
DescriptionApache 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apache Activemq All All All All
Application Apache Axis - alpha1 All All
Application Apache Axis - alpha2 All All
Application Apache Axis - alpha3 All All
Application Apache Axis - beta1 All All
Application Apache Axis - beta2 All All
Application Apache Axis - beta3 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.0 All All All
Application Apache Axis 1.0 beta All All
Application Apache Axis 1.0 rc1 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.0 rc2 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.1 All All All
Application Apache Axis 1.1 beta All All
Application Apache Axis 1.1 rc1 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.1 rc2 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.2 All All All
Application Apache Axis 1.2 alpha All All
Application Apache Axis 1.2 beta1 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.2 beta2 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.2 beta3 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.2 rc1 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.2 rc2 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.2 rc3 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.2.1 All All All
Application Apache Axis 1.3 All All All
Application Apache Axis - alpha1 All All
Application Apache Axis - alpha2 All All
Application Apache Axis - alpha3 All All
Application Apache Axis - beta1 All All
Application Apache Axis - beta2 All All
Application Apache Axis - beta3 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.0 All All All
Application Apache Axis 1.0 beta All All
Application Apache Axis 1.0 rc1 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.0 rc2 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.1 All All All
Application Apache Axis 1.1 beta All All
Application Apache Axis 1.1 rc1 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.1 rc2 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.2 All All All
Application Apache Axis 1.2 alpha All All
Application Apache Axis 1.2 beta1 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.2 beta2 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.2 beta3 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.2 rc1 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.2 rc2 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.2 rc3 All All
Application Apache Axis 1.2.1 All All All
Application Apache Axis 1.3 All All All
Application Apache Axis All All All All
Application Paypal Mass Pay - All All All
Application Paypal Mass Pay - All All All
Application Paypal Payments Pro - All All All
Application Paypal Payments Pro - All All All
Application Paypal Transactional Information Soap - All All All
Application Paypal Transactional Information Soap - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf MISC www.cs.utexas.edu Exploit, Technical Description
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Security Advisory SA51219 - Apache Axis SSL Certificate Verification Security Issue - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Pony Mail! lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Apache Axis and Axis2/Java SSL Certificate Validation Security Bypass Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Pony Mail! lists.apache.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1497-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1526-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 379452 IBM Cognos Analytics Multiple Vulnerabilities (7123154)
  • 980537 Java (maven) Security Update for axis:axis (GHSA-55w9-c3g2-4rrh)
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