Bug 873253 – CVE-2012-5785 axis2: Does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's CN or subjectAltName field of the x.509 certificate

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Bug 873253 - (CVE-2012-5785) CVE-2012-5785 axis2: Does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's CN or subjectAltName field of the x.509 certificate

Summary:	CVE-2012-5785 axis2: Does not verify that the server hostname matches a domai...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2012-5785

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	873288
Blocks:	873290
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Reported:	2012-11-05 08:07 EST by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified:	2012-11-05 20:17 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2012-11-05 20:17:18 EST
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-05 08:07:10 EST

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2012-5785 to the following vulnerability:

Apache Axis2/Java 1.6.2 and earlier 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

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-05 08:52:17 EST

Created axis2 tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-17 [bug 873288]

Comment 2 David Jorm 2012-11-05 20:17:18 EST

Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue only affects axis2 as shipped with Fedora. It does not affect components shipped with any Red Hat products.

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