CVE-2014-3596 Affecting axis package, versions <1.4-21


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
9.15% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-AXIS-278397
  • published27 Aug 2014
  • disclosed27 Aug 2014

Introduced: 27 Aug 2014

CVE-2014-3596  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 axis to version 1.4-21 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream axis package and not the axis package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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