CVE-2012-5784
axis - security update
EPSS 1.6%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2012-5784
To remediate CVE-2012-5784, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/axis—upgrade to 1.4-16.1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.4-12+deb6u1 or later
- —no fix listed
- —no fix listed
Is CVE-2012-5784 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 1.4-16.1
- from 0, < 1.4-12+deb6u1
- from 0, <= 1.4
- from 0, <= 1.4