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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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

Updated: 2024-08-06T21:14:16.382Z

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

Link: CVE-2012-5817

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-11-04T22:55:04.670

Modified: 2024-11-21T01:45:17.670

Link: CVE-2012-5817

cve-icon Redhat

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