GHSA-5jc8-8xhv-g8qmHighCVSS 7.4

Improper Input Validation in XFire

Published
May 17, 2022
Last Modified
March 21, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2012-5817 →

📋 Description

Codehaus XFire 1.2.6 and earlier, as used in the Amazon EC2 API Tools Java library 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.

🎯 Affected products1

  • maven/org.codehaus.xfire:xfire-core:<= 1.2.6

🔗 References (4)