GHSA-2x83-r56g-cv47High

Improper certificate validation in org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient

Published
October 17, 2018
Last Modified
March 5, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

http/conn/ssl/AbstractVerifier.java in Apache Commons HttpClient before 4.2.3 does not properly 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 a certificate with a subject that specifies a common name in a field that is not the CN field. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-5783.

🎯 Affected products1

  • maven/org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:< 4.2.3

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