Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package axis  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1504-AXIS-641612
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed4 Nov 2012

Introduced: 4 Nov 2012

CVE-2012-5784  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.04.

NVD Description

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

Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier, as used in PayPal Payments Pro, PayPal Mass Pay, PayPal Transactional Information SOAP, the Java Message Service implementation in Apache ActiveMQ, 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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