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Improper Certificate Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package commons-httpclient  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-COMMONSHTTPCLIENT-641624
  • published4 Nov 2012
  • disclosed4 Nov 2012
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Introduced: 4 Nov 2012

CVE-2012-5783  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream commons-httpclient package and not the commons-httpclient package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Apache Commons HttpClient 3.x, as used in Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) merchant Java SDK and other products, does not 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 an arbitrary valid certificate.

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