CVE-2012-5784

axis: missing connection hostname check against X.509 certificate name

Severity Score

5.8

*CVSS v2

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Apache Axis v1.4 y versiones anteriores, tal y como se utiliza en los pagos de PayPal Pro, PPayPal Mass Pay, PayPal Transactional Information SOAP, la implementación de Java Message Service en Apache ActiveMQ, y otros productos, no comprueba si el nombre del servidor coincide con un nombre de dominio en el Nombre Común (CN) del sujeto o 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.

Apache Axis did not verify that the server host name matched the domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field in X.509 certificates. This could allow a man-in-the-middle attacker to spoof an SSL server if they had a certificate that was valid for any domain name.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2012-11-04 CVE Reserved
2012-11-04 CVE Published
2023-03-08 EPSS Updated
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
2024-08-06 First Exploit
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

CAPEC

References (16)

URL	Tag	Source
http://secunia.com/advisories/51219	Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56408	Third Party Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79829	Vdb Entry
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/44d4e88a5fa8ae60deb752029afe9054da87c5f859caf296fcf585e5%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E	Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5e6c92145deddcecf70c3604041dcbd615efa2d37632fc2b9c367780%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E	Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8aa25c99eeb0693fc229ec87d1423b5ed5d58558618706d8aba1d832%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E	Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a308887782e05da7cf692e4851ae2bd429a038570cbf594e6631cc8d%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E	Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/de2af12dcaba653d02b03235327ca4aa930401813a3cced8e151d29c%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E	Mailing List

URL	Date	SRC
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf	2024-08-06

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00007.html	2023-11-07
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00022.html	2023-11-07
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0269.html	2023-11-07
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0683.html	2023-11-07
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0037.html	2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5784	2014-09-02
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873252	2014-09-02

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Activemq Search vendor "Apache" for product "Activemq"				<= 5.7.0 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Activemq" and version " <= 5.7.0"		-		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				<= 1.4 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis" and version " <= 1.4"		-		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				-		alpha1		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				-		alpha2		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				-		alpha3		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				-		beta1		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				-		beta2		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				-		beta3		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				1.0 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis" and version "1.0"		-		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				1.0 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis" and version "1.0"		beta		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				1.0 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis" and version "1.0"		rc1		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				1.0 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis" and version "1.0"		rc2		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				1.1 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis" and version "1.1"		-		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				1.1 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis" and version "1.1"		beta		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				1.1 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis" and version "1.1"		rc1		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				1.1 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis" and version "1.1"		rc2		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				1.2 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis" and version "1.2"		-		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				1.2 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis" and version "1.2"		alpha		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				1.2 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis" and version "1.2"		beta1		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				1.2 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis" and version "1.2"		beta2		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				1.2 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis" and version "1.2"		beta3		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				1.2 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis" and version "1.2"		rc1		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				1.2 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis" and version "1.2"		rc2		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				1.2 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis" and version "1.2"		rc3		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				1.2.1 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis" and version "1.2.1"		-		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Axis Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis"				1.3 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Axis" and version "1.3"		-		Affected
Paypal Search vendor "Paypal"		Mass Pay Search vendor "Paypal" for product "Mass Pay"				-		-		Affected
Paypal Search vendor "Paypal"		Payments Pro Search vendor "Paypal" for product "Payments Pro"				-		-		Affected
Paypal Search vendor "Paypal"		Transactional Information Soap Search vendor "Paypal" for product "Transactional Information Soap"				-		-		Affected