CVE-2014-3604

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-10-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

Certificates.java in Not Yet Commons SSL before 0.3.15 does not properly verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

Affected products

Not Yet Commons Ssl Project Not Yet Commons Ssl: through 0.3.14

References

http://juliusdavies.ca/svn/viewvc.cgi/not-yet-commons-ssl?view=rev&revision=172
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1888.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1131803
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/97659
https://github.com/victims/victims-cve-db/blob/master/database/java/2014/3604.yaml
http://juliusdavies.ca/svn/viewvc.cgi/not-yet-commons-ssl?view=rev&revision=172
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1888.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1131803
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/97659
https://github.com/victims/victims-cve-db/blob/master/database/java/2014/3604.yaml

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