MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2014-3522

Subversion vulnerability

CVSS
4.0
EPSS
5.6%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
The Serf RA layer in Apache Subversion 1.4.0 through 1.7.x before 1.7.18 and 1.8.x before 1.8.10 does not properly handle wildcards in the Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a crafted certificate.
Affected vendor
Apache
Affected product
Subversion
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2014-08-19

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 5.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2014-3522

  • Confirm whether Apache Subversion is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-3522.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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