CVE-2012-5784

Activemq vulnerability

CVSS

5.8

EPSS

5.7%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

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 vendor

Apache

Affected product

Activemq

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

Published

2012-11-04

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 5.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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