CVE-2013-1909

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-08-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Python client in Apache Qpid before 2.2 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 Qpid: through 0.20; 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 0.10 (+9)
RedHat Enterprise Mrg: 2.0

References

http://qpid.apache.org/releases/qpid-0.22/release-notes.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1024.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/53968
http://secunia.com/advisories/54137
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1460013
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/QPID-4918
http://qpid.apache.org/releases/qpid-0.22/release-notes.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1024.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/53968
http://secunia.com/advisories/54137
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1460013
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/QPID-4918

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