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CVE-2012-5784
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 5.7% 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
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.
Affected products
- Apache ActiveMQ: through 5.7.0
- Apache Software Foundation Apache Axis: through 1.4; 1.0, 1.0-beta, 1.0-rc1, 1.0-rc2, 1.1, 1.1-beta (+12)
- PayPal Mass Pay: all versions
- PayPal Payments Pro: all versions
- PayPal Transactional Information Soap: all versions
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00007.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00022.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0269.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0683.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0037.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51219
- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56408
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79829
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/44d4e88a5fa8ae60deb752029afe9054da87c5f859caf296fcf585e5%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5e6c92145deddcecf70c3604041dcbd615efa2d37632fc2b9c367780%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8aa25c99eeb0693fc229ec87d1423b5ed5d58558618706d8aba1d832%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
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