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Man-in-the-middle attack in Apache Axis

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 7, 2020 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

maven axis:axis (Maven)

Affected versions

<= 1.4

Patched versions

None
maven org.apache.axis:axis (Maven)
<= 1.4
None

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.

References

Reviewed Oct 7, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 7, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.120%
(48th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2012-5784

GHSA ID

GHSA-55w9-c3g2-4rrh

Source code

No known source code
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