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Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package httpcomponents-client  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-HTTPCOMPONENTSCLIENT-641128
  • published4 Sept 2014
  • disclosed4 Sept 2014
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Introduced: 4 Sep 2014

CVE-2012-6153  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

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

http/conn/ssl/AbstractVerifier.java in Apache Commons HttpClient before 4.2.3 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 certificate with a subject that specifies a common name in a field that is not the CN field. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-5783.

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