CVE-2012-5783

NameCVE-2012-5783
DescriptionApache Commons HttpClient 3.x, as used in Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) merchant Java SDK 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-222-1
Debian Bugs692442

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
commons-httpclient (PTS)sid, trixie, bookworm, bullseye3.1-16fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
commons-httpclientsourcesqueeze3.1-9+deb6u1DLA-222-1
commons-httpclientsource(unstable)3.1-10.1692442

Notes

[wheezy] - commons-httpclient <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[squeeze] - commons-httpclient <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
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