Security Advisory

CVE-2012-5817

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

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 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.