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CVE-2012-5583

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-06-06 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-310

Description

phpCAS before 1.3.2 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.

Affected products

• apereo phpCAS: through 1.3.1; 1.3.0, 1.3.0-rc1

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/51818
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81208
• https://github.com/Jasig/phpCAS/blob/master/docs/ChangeLog
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51818
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81208
• https://github.com/Jasig/phpCAS/blob/master/docs/ChangeLog

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