Amazon Elastic Load Balancing API Tools 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, related to overriding the default JDK X509TrustManager.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-5664 Amazon Elastic Load Balancing API Tools 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, related to overriding the default JDK X509TrustManager.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T00:31:26.809Z

Reserved: 2012-11-04T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2012-5781

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2012-11-04T22:55:03.153

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2012-5781

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