In short
- CVE-2012-5817 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.4) vulnerability affecting org.codehaus.xfire:xfire-core, xfire (codehaus).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.78%, higher than 56.1% of all vulnerabilities.
- No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.
Description
Codehaus XFire 1.2.6 and earlier, as used in the Amazon EC2 API Tools Java library 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.
NVD description
Codehaus XFire 1.2.6 and earlier, as used in the Amazon EC2 API Tools Java library 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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