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CVE-2012-5784

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
04/11/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
5.80
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:apache:activemq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.7.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.4 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:-:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:-:alpha2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:-:alpha3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:-:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:-:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:-:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.1:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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