CVE-2013-0253

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-04-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

The default configuration of Apache Maven 3.0.4, when using Maven Wagon 2.1, disables SSL certificate checks, which allows remote attackers to spoof servers via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.

Affected products

Apache Maven: 3.0.4

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0700.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917084
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
https://maven.apache.org/security.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0700.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917084
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
https://maven.apache.org/security.html

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