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CVE-2012-5783

Apache Commons HttpClient 3.x, as used in Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) merchant Java SDK and other products, d

Apache Commons HttpClient 3.x, as used in Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) merchant Java SDK 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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.8 EPSS 0.00616
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  • No active-exploitation, high-EPSS, or public-exploit signals - routine patching cadence
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-295Improper Certificate Validation
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Affected Products & Versions

2
apache httpclientall versions
canonical ubuntu linuxall versions
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Affected Packages

1
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
Maven commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient MODERATE
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Scoring & Timeline

5.8
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Published to NVD04 Nov 2012 · 10:55 PM
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Vendor Advisories

30
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10381-1
rhsaRHSA-2023:3954Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2017:0868Low
usnUSN-2769-1
rhsaRHSA-2015:1009Low
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References & Sources

17
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00078.htmlBroken Link
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00040.htmlBroken Link
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00041.htmlBroken Link
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00053.htmlBroken Link
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0270.htmlBroken Link
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0679.htmlBroken Link
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