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CVE-2012-5781

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing API Tools does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName fiel…

Impact

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing API Tools 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, related to overriding the default JDK X509TrustManager.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
AmazonElastic Load Balancing
All versions
Versions 1.0, 1.0.3.4, 1.0.9.3, 1.0.10.0, 1.0.11.1

Weakness classification

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