VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2012-5784
CVSS score5.8 MEDIUM
EPSS probability5.72%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2012-11-04
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Description
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.
Weakness classification
- CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
Primary references
- cve@mitre.org
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- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
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- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
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- cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Technical Description
- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
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