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High · 7.4 CVE-2012-5817 EUVD-2022-2609GHSA-5jc8-8xhv-g8qm

Improper Input Validation in XFire

Published Nov 4, 2012 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Codehaus XFire 1.2.6 and earlier, as used in the Amazon EC2 API Tools Java library 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 packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.codehaus.xfire:xfire-core <= 1.2.6 — GHSA-5jc8-8xhv-g8qm

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