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Improper Certificate Validation Affecting commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient Open this link in a new tab package, versions [0,]

0.0
medium

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

  • User Interaction

    Required

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-JAVA-COMMONSHTTPCLIENT-30083

  • published

    25 Mar 2013

  • disclosed

    4 Nov 2012

  • credit

    Unknown

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Introduced: 4 Nov 2012

CVE-2012-5783 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-295 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient.

Overview

commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient is a HttpClient component of the Apache HttpComponents project.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation due to not verifying that the requesting server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.