GHSA-r53v-vm87-f72cMedium

Improper Validation of Certificates in apache axis

Published
October 16, 2018
Last Modified
March 1, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

The getCN function in Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier 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-2012-5784.

🎯 Affected products2

  • maven/org.apache.axis:axis:<= 1.4
  • maven/axis:axis:<= 1.4

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