Bug 1131803 (CVE-2014-3604) - CVE-2014-3604 Not Yet Commons SSL: Hostname verification susceptible to MITM attack
Summary: CVE-2014-3604 Not Yet Commons SSL: Hostname verification susceptible to MITM ...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-3604
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1132747 Red Hat1132749
Blocks: Embargoed1131826 Embargoed1244362
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Reported: 2014-08-20 05:56 UTC by Arun Babu Neelicattu
Modified: 2023-05-12 13:27 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: commons-ssl 0.3.15
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
It was discovered that the implementation used by the Not Yet Commons SSL project to check that the server hostname matches the domain name in the subject's CN field was flawed. This could be exploited by a man-in-the-middle attacker by spoofing a valid certificate using a specially crafted subject.
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Last Closed: 2016-03-18 18:39:13 UTC

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1888 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5.3.1 security update 2015-10-12 19:27:33 UTC

Description Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-08-20 05:56:47 UTC 
It was discovered that the implementation used by the Not Yet Commons SSL project 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 2014-08-20 06:00:56 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Arun Babu Neelicattu of Red Hat Product Security.
Comment 2 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-08-20 07:44:59 UTC 
Statement:

Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 4 is now in Phase 3, Extended Life Support, of its life cycle. This issue has been rated as having Important security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat JBoss Middleware and Red Hat JBoss Operations Network Product Update and Support Policy: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/jboss_notes/
Comment 4 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-08-22 01:54:02 UTC 
Created not-yet-commons-ssl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1132747]
Comment 5 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-09-22 22:25:33 UTC 
Upstream Commit:

http://juliusdavies.ca/svn/viewvc.cgi/not-yet-commons-ssl?view=rev&revision=172
Comment 6 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-09-22 22:36:30 UTC 
Victims Record:

https://github.com/victims/victims-cve-db/blob/master/database/java/2014/3604.yaml
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2015-10-12 15:31:03 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5.3.1

Via RHSA-2015:1888 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1888.html
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