| Name | CVE-2012-5784 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-169-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 692650 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| axis (PTS) | buster | 1.4-28 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1.4-28+deb10u1 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 1.4-28+deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 1.4-28+deb12u1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 1.4-29 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| axis | source | squeeze | 1.4-12+deb6u1 | DLA-169-1 | ||
| axis | source | (unstable) | 1.4-16.1 | low | 692650 |
[squeeze] - axis <no-dsa> (Minor issue)