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...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2012-5785
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 873288
Blocks: 873290
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-11-05 13:07 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-17 08:27 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-11-06 01:17:18 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-05 13:07:10 UTC 
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 13:52:17 UTC 
Created axis2 tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-17 [bug 873288]
Comment 2 David Jorm 2012-11-06 01:17:18 UTC 
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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