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CVE-2012-5814

• 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: yes
• Published: 2012-11-04 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Weberknecht, as used in GitHub Gaug.es 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

• GitHub Gaug.Es: all versions
• Roderick Baier Weberknecht: all versions

References

• http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79937
• http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79937

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