Improper Certificate Validation Affecting commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient Open this link in a new tab package, versions [0,]
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
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snyk-id
SNYK-JAVA-COMMONSHTTPCLIENT-30083
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published
25 Mar 2013
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disclosed
4 Nov 2012
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credit
Unknown
Introduced: 4 Nov 2012
CVE-2012-5783 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.