CVE-2012-5785 (GCVE-0-2012-5785)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-11-04 22:00
Modified
2024-08-06 21:14
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Apache Axis2/Java 1.6.2 and earlier 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.
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