CVE-2012-5781 (GCVE-0-2012-5781)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-11-04 22:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 00:31
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Summary
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing API Tools 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, related to overriding the default JDK X509TrustManager.
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