Bug 873252 (CVE-2012-5784) - CVE-2012-5784 axis: missing connection hostname check against X.509 certificate name
Summary: CVE-2012-5784 axis: missing connection hostname check against X.509 certifica...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-5784
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 873291 893317 893319 893320 893321 893322 896286 896287 961360 1129971
Blocks: 873294 1131741
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Reported: 2012-11-05 13:02 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:57 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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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.
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Last Closed: 2014-09-02 19:51:11 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0269 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: axis security update 2013-02-20 03:24:52 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0683 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: axis security update 2013-03-25 21:14:32 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:0037 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: jasperreports-server-pro security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2014-01-21 22:33:29 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1123 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: devtoolset-2-axis security update 2014-09-02 22:09:32 UTC

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-05 13:02:21 UTC 
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
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-05 13:56:55 UTC 
Created axis tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 873291]
Comment 6 David Jorm 2012-12-12 06:24:05 UTC 
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.
Comment 10 David Jorm 2013-01-16 23:22:02 UTC 
Created axis tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 896285]
Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2013-02-01 16:58:03 UTC 
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.
Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2013-02-01 17:16:35 UTC 
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.
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-19 22:25:44 UTC 
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
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2013-03-25 17:15:26 UTC 
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
Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2014-01-21 17:43:31 UTC 
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
Comment 22 Tomas Hoger 2014-08-27 12:41:00 UTC 
The fix for this issue was found to be incomplete.  The incomplete fix issue got CVE-2014-3596 and is tracked via bug 1129935.
Comment 23 Martin Prpič 2014-08-28 08:52:02 UTC 
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.
Comment 24 errata-xmlrpc 2014-09-02 18:11:24 UTC 
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
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