National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-5784
Original release date:11/04/2012
Last revised:05/15/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
4.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: XF
Name: apache-axis-ssl-spoofing(79829)
External Source: BID
Name: 56408
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 51219
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2013:0683
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2013:0269