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CVE-2012-5815

• 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

The Rackspace app 2.1.5 for iOS 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

• Rackspace: 2.1.5

References

• http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79936
• http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79936

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