CVE

Id
59396  
CVE No.
CVE-2012-6153  
Status
Candidate  
Description
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.  
Phase
Assigned (20121206)  
Votes
None (candidate not yet proposed)  
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