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CVE-2014-3607

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• 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: 2018-01-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-295

Description

DefaultHostnameVerifier in Ldaptive (formerly vt-ldap) 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

• Ldaptive: before 1.0.5 — fixed in 1.0.5
• Ldaptive Vt-Ldap: before 3.3.8 — fixed in 3.3.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Ldaptive 1.0.5; Ldaptive Vt-Ldap 3.3.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20140919.txt
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1140438
• https://code.google.com/archive/p/vt-middleware/issues/226
• https://code.google.com/archive/p/vt-middleware/issues/227
• https://code.google.com/archive/p/vt-middleware/issues/228
• http://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20140919.txt
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1140438
• https://code.google.com/archive/p/vt-middleware/issues/226
• https://code.google.com/archive/p/vt-middleware/issues/227
• https://code.google.com/archive/p/vt-middleware/issues/228

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