Security Advisory

CVE-2012-5783

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-11-04 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 21:14:16
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Apache Commons HttpClient 3.x, as used in Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) merchant Java SDK and other products, does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subjects 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.