CVE-2012-5783

Apache Commons HttpClient v3.x, tal y como se utiliza en el Java SDK de Amazon Flexible Payments Service(FPS) y otros productos, no comprueba si el nombre del servidor coincide con un nombre de dominio en el nombre común (CN) del sujeto o con el campo subjectAltName del certificado X.509, lo que permite falsificar servidores SSL a atacantes man-in-the-middle mediante un certificado válido de su elección.

It was found that 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.

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