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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2012-11-04T22:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T21:14:16.415Z

Reserved: 2012-11-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2012-5783

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-11-04T22:55:03.297

Modified: 2024-11-21T01:45:12.763

Link: CVE-2012-5783

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2012-10-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-5783 - Bugzilla