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CVE-2012-5784

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…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
ApacheActivemq
through 5.7.0
ApacheAxis
through 1.4
All versions
Versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1
PaypalMass Pay
All versions
PaypalPayments Pro
All versions
PaypalTransactional Information Soap
All versions

Weakness classification

CWE-20

References