CVE-2012-5784
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 5.7% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2020-1408)
- Published
- November 4, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2020-1408 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apache / activemq
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- apache / axis
- paypal / mass pay
- paypal / payments pro
- paypal / transactional information soap
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00007.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00022.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0269.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0683.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0037.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51219
- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf(Exploit, Technical Description)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56408(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79829
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/44d4e88a5fa8ae60deb752029afe9054da87c5f859caf296fcf585e5%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5e6c92145deddcecf70c3604041dcbd615efa2d37632fc2b9c367780%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8aa25c99eeb0693fc229ec87d1423b5ed5d58558618706d8aba1d832%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a308887782e05da7cf692e4851ae2bd429a038570cbf594e6631cc8d%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/de2af12dcaba653d02b03235327ca4aa930401813a3cced8e151d29c%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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