Bug 1129935 (CVE-2014-3596)

Summary:	CVE-2014-3596 axis: SSL hostname verification bypass, incomplete CVE-2012-5784 fix
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	David Jorm <djorm>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	andjrobins, bdawidow, bmcclain, chazlett, cperry, dblechte, drieden, epp-bugs, grocha, idith, java-maint, jpallich, jrusnack, krzysztof.daniel, lsurette, mgoldman, michal.skrivanek, mjc, mmcgrath, mweiler, nobody+bgollahe, ohudlick, pcheung, Rhev-m-bugs, security-response-team, srevivo, theute, weli, ykaul
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	It was discovered that Axis incorrectly extracted the host name from an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name (CN) field. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1129971, 1129979, 1129980, 1129981, 1129982, 1129983, 1129984, 1129985, 1129986, 1129987, 1129988, 1129989, 1129993, 1129995, 1134761, 1134762, 1219514
Bug Blocks:	1130120, 1134386, 1196328, 1220827

Description David Jorm 2014-08-14 03:27:37 UTC

It was found that the fix for CVE-2012-5784 was incomplete. The code added to check that the server hostname matches the domain name in the subject's CN field was flawed. This can be exploited by a Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack where the attacker can spoof a valid certificate using a specially crafted subject.

Comment 1 David Jorm 2014-08-14 03:31:13 UTC

Statement:

Note that Axis 1 is EOL upstream, and the incomplete patch for CVE-2012-5784 was never merged upstream. It was, however, shipped by various vendors, including Debian and Red Hat. Additional information can be found in the Red Hat Knowledgebase article: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1164433

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by David Jorm and Arun Neelicattu of Red Hat Product Security.

Comment 3 David Jorm 2014-08-19 00:46:17 UTC

Upstream bug:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-2905

Proposed upstream patch:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12662672/CVE-2014-3596.patch

Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2014-08-27 12:44:16 UTC

The original issue CVE-2012-5784 was tracked via bug 873252.

This problem is similar to Apache HttpComponents Client / Apache/Jakarta Commons HttpClient issue CVE-2014-3577, see bug 1129074 comment 23 for technical details.

Comment 6 Martin Prpič 2014-09-04 09:52:21 UTC

IssueDescription:

It was discovered that Axis incorrectly extracted the host name from an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name (CN) field. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2014-09-15 15:40:42 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:1193 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1193.html

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2015-05-14 15:14:17 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  JBoss Portal 6.2.0

Via RHSA-2015:1010 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1010.html