ubuntu-cve-2014-3596
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2014-08-27 00:55
Modified
2025-07-16 04:50
Summary
Details

The getCN function in Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier 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-2012-5784.

Severity
N/A (UNKNOWN)
low
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libaxis-java",
            "binary_version": "1.4-20ubuntu3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libaxis-java-doc",
            "binary_version": "1.4-20ubuntu3"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "axis",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/axis@1.4-20ubuntu3?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.4-20ubuntu3"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1.4-20ubuntu1",
        "1.4-20ubuntu2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "The getCN function in Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier does not properly verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject\u0027s 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-2012-5784.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3596",
  "modified": "2025-07-16T04:50:31Z",
  "published": "2014-08-27T00:55:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3596"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12662672/CVE-2014-3596.patch"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3596"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "low",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2014-3596"
  ],
  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:43:02Z"
}



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