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Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package httpclient.src  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-HTTPCLIENTSRC-15132539
  • published29 Jan 2026
  • disclosed18 Aug 2014
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Introduced: 18 Aug 2014

CVE-2014-3577  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-297  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream httpclient.src package and not the httpclient.src package as distributed by RHEL.

org.apache.http.conn.ssl.AbstractVerifier in Apache HttpComponents HttpClient before 4.3.5 and HttpAsyncClient before 4.0.2 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 "CN=" string in a field in the distinguished name (DN) of a certificate, as demonstrated by the "foo,CN=www.apache.org" string in the O field.

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