Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2012-5784 to the following vulnerability: Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier, as used in PayPal Payments Pro, PayPal Mass Pay, PayPal Transactional Information SOAP, the Java Message Service implementation in Apache ActiveMQ, 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. References: [1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf [2] https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/abstracts/ssl-client-bugs.html [3] http://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2012/techprogram.shtml
Created axis tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 873291]
A patch for this issue is available here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-2883 This patch has been shipped by Debian and has been proposed for acceptance by upstream. Upstream is no longer maintained and so far has not responded to communication on this issue; the patch may never be committed upstream.
Created axis tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 896285]
axis-1.4-19.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
axis-1.4-19.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2013:0269 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0269.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2013:0683 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0683.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: RHEV Manager version 3.3 Via RHSA-2014:0037 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0037.html
The fix for this issue was found to be incomplete. The incomplete fix issue got CVE-2014-3596 and is tracked via bug 1129935.
IssueDescription: Apache Axis did not verify that the server host name matched the domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field in X.509 certificates. This could allow a man-in-the-middle attacker to spoof an SSL server if they had a certificate that was valid for any domain name.
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.1 for RHEL 6 Via RHSA-2014:1123 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1123.html