Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier, as used in PayPal Payments Pro, PayPal Mass Pay, PayPal Transactional Information SOAP, the Java Message Service implementation in Apache ActiveMQ, and other products, 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2012-11-04T22:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T21:14:16.399Z

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

Link: CVE-2012-5784

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-11-04T22:55:03.327

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:12:41.587

Link: CVE-2012-5784

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2012-10-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-5784 - Bugzilla