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Improper certificate validation in org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 17, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 5, 2024

Package

maven org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient (Maven)

Affected versions

< 4.2.3

Patched versions

4.2.3

Description

http/conn/ssl/AbstractVerifier.java in Apache Commons HttpClient before 4.2.3 does not properly 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 a certificate with a subject that specifies a common name in a field that is not the CN field. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-5783.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 17, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Mar 5, 2024

Severity

High

EPSS score

0.149%
(52nd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2012-6153

GHSA ID

GHSA-2x83-r56g-cv47

Source code

No known source code

Credits

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