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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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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

Updated: 2017-08-28T12:57:01

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


Link: CVE-2012-5817

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2012-11-04T22:55:04.670

Modified: 2024-02-14T17:18:22.950


Link: CVE-2012-5817

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CWE