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CVE-2012-5784

Published: Nov 4, 2012Updated: Apr 29, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-20
5.8MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
5.7%
Top 7.9%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
No Fix Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

Description

Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier, as used in PayPal Payments Pro, PayPal Mass Pay, PayPal Transactional Information SOAP, the Java Message Service implementation in Apache ActiveMQ, 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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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:MAu:NC:PI:PA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:MAccess Complexity
Medium
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:PConfidentiality
Partial
I:PIntegrity
Partial
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected Products

paypal
commercial·US
mass paySaaS
Cloud & SaaS / saas-application
payments proSaaS
Cloud & SaaS / saas-application
transactional information soapSaaS
Cloud & SaaS / saas-application
apache
oss-project·USaka apache httpd, apache http server
activemqLibraryLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library
axisLibraryLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library
Maven
package-ecosystem
org.apache.axis:axis
OSS Libraries
axis:axis
OSS Libraries
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Exploitability

No known exploits, KEV entries, or remediation guidance available for this vulnerability yet.
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MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
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References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0269.html
rhn.redhat.com
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0037.html
rhn.redhat.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/51219
secunia.com
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