CVE-2012-5817 | BDVDB-2026-53319 Detail

Description#

Codehaus XFire 1.2.6 and earlier, as used in the Amazon EC2 API Tools Java library 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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79934

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12012-11-04Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-06Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.