Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Affecting axis:axis package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-AXIS-30071
  • published18 Aug 2014
  • disclosed13 Aug 2014
  • creditDavid Jorm, Arun Neelicattu

Introduced: 13 Aug 2014

CVE-2014-3596  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-297  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for axis:axis.

Overview

axis:axis is an implementation of the SOAP ("Simple Object Access Protocol") submission to W3C.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM). It does not verify the requesting server's hostname against existing domain names in the SSL Certificate.

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.

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