CVE-2012-6107 (GCVE-0-2012-6107)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-09-29 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:28
VLAI
Summary
Apache Axis2/C 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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2012-12-22 00:00
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