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CVE-2012-5781
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2012-11-04 · updated 2026-06-16
- Weakness: CWE-20
Description
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing API Tools 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, related to overriding the default JDK X509TrustManager.
Affected products
- Amazon Elastic Load Balancing: 1.0, 1.0-1, 1.0.3.4, 1.0.9.3, 1.0.10.0, 1.0.11.1 (+4)
References
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