CVE-2012-5783 Information

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 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.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00078.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00040.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00041.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00053.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0270.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0679.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0680.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0681.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0682.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1147.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1853.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0224.html http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58073 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2769-1 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0868 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79984 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1265