Bug 1129935 (CVE-2014-3596) - CVE-2014-3596 axis: SSL hostname verification bypass, incomplete CVE-2012-5784 fix
Summary: CVE-2014-3596 axis: SSL hostname verification bypass, incomplete CVE-2012-578...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-3596
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1129981 1129984 1129971 1129979 1129980 1129982 1129983 1129985 1129986 1129987 1129988 1129989 1129993 1129995 1134761 1134762 1219514
Blocks: 1130120 1134386 1196328 1220827
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Reported: 2014-08-14 03:27 UTC by David Jorm
Modified: 2023-05-12 13:26 UTC (History)
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It was discovered that Axis incorrectly extracted the host name from an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name (CN) field. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:34:28 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1193 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: axis security update 2014-09-15 19:40:17 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1010 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Portal 6.2.0 security update 2015-05-14 19:14:11 UTC

Description David Jorm 2014-08-14 03:27:37 UTC 
It was found that the fix for CVE-2012-5784 was incomplete. The code added 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 2014-08-14 03:31:13 UTC 
Statement:

Note that Axis 1 is EOL upstream, and the incomplete patch for CVE-2012-5784 was never merged upstream. It was, however, shipped by various vendors, including Debian and Red Hat. Additional information can be found in the Red Hat Knowledgebase article: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1164433

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by David Jorm and Arun Neelicattu of Red Hat Product Security.
Comment 3 David Jorm 2014-08-19 00:46:17 UTC 
Upstream bug:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-2905

Proposed upstream patch:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12662672/CVE-2014-3596.patch
Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2014-08-27 12:44:16 UTC 
The original issue CVE-2012-5784 was tracked via bug 873252.

This problem is similar to Apache HttpComponents Client / Apache/Jakarta Commons HttpClient issue CVE-2014-3577, see bug 1129074 comment 23 for technical details.
Comment 6 Martin Prpič 2014-09-04 09:52:21 UTC 
IssueDescription:

It was discovered that Axis incorrectly extracted the host name from an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name (CN) field. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate.
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2014-09-15 15:40:42 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:1193 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1193.html
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2015-05-14 15:14:17 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  JBoss Portal 6.2.0

Via RHSA-2015:1010 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1010.html
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