CVE-2014-5075

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

The Ignite Realtime Smack XMPP API 4.x before 4.0.2, and 3.x and 2.x when a custom SSLContext is used, 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

igniterealtime Smack Api: through 4.0.1
RedHat Jboss Fuse: through 6.1.0

References

http://op-co.de/CVE-2014-5075.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1176.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59915
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69064
http://op-co.de/CVE-2014-5075.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1176.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59915
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69064

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