Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Affecting axis:axis package, versions [0,]
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-AXIS-30071
- published 18 Aug 2014
- disclosed 13 Aug 2014
- credit David Jorm, Arun Neelicattu
Introduced: 13 Aug 2014
CVE-2014-3596 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.