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Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package jakarta-commons-httpclient.src  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-JAKARTACOMMONSHTTPCLIENTSRC-15132540
  • 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 jakarta-commons-httpclient.src package and not the jakarta-commons-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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