CVE-2014-3596

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-08-27 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The getCN function in Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier does not properly 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 a certificate with a subject that specifies a common name in a field that is not the CN field. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-5784.

Affected products

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)

References

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1193.html
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-2014-1193.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/61222
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/20/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69295
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030745
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95377
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-2905
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

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