UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6153 (CVE-2012-6153)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2014-09-04 00:00 – Updated: 2025-07-16 04:50 – Source website
Withdrawn 2025-07-18 VLAI
Details

http/conn/ssl/AbstractVerifier.java in Apache Commons HttpClient before 4.2.3 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-2012-5783.

Severity
N/A (UNKNOWN)
low
References
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  "details": "http/conn/ssl/AbstractVerifier.java in Apache Commons HttpClient before 4.2.3 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-2012-5783.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6153",
  "modified": "2025-07-16T04:50:09Z",
  "published": "2014-09-04T00:00:00Z",
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  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:42:48Z"
}



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