CVE-2012-5784

Published: Nov 4, 2012Updated: Apr 29, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-20

5.8MEDIUM

NVD MITRE

Description

Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier, as used in PayPal Payments Pro, PayPal Mass Pay, PayPal Transactional Information SOAP, the Java Message Service implementation in Apache ActiveMQ, 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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAccess Vector

Network

AC:MAccess Complexity

Medium

Au:NAuthentication

None

Impact

C:PConfidentiality

Partial

I:PIntegrity

Partial

A:NAvailability

None

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Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected Products

paypal

commercial·US

mass paySaaS

Cloud & SaaS / saas-application

payments proSaaS

Cloud & SaaS / saas-application

transactional information soapSaaS

Cloud & SaaS / saas-application

apache

oss-project·USaka apache http server, apache httpd

activemqLibraryLibrary

OSS Libraries / generic-library

axisLibraryLibrary

OSS Libraries / generic-library

package-ecosystem

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Exploitability

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References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0269.html

rhn.redhat.com

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0037.html

rhn.redhat.com

http://secunia.com/advisories/51219

secunia.com

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