CVE-2012-5817 Information

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 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://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79934