CVE-2012-5817 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Codehaus XFire 1.2.6 and earlier, as used in the Amazon EC2 API Tools Java library 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.

Published: 2012-11-04

Score: 7.4 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:amazon:ec2_api_tools_java_library:-:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:codehaus:xfire::::::::

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Github GHSA	GHSA-5jc8-8xhv-g8qm	Improper Input Validation in XFire

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00132.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79934

History

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Subscriptions

Amazon Ec2 Api Tools Java Library

Codehaus Xfire

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2012-11-04T22:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T21:14:16.382Z

Reserved: 2012-11-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-5817

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-11-04T22:55:04.670

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2012-5817

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-295

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