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Medium: jakarta-commons-httpclient

Description

**Issue Overview:** The Jakarta Commons HttpClient component did not verify that the server hostname matched the domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field in X.509 certificates. This could allow a man-in-the-middle attacker to spoof an SSL server if they had a certificate that was valid for any domain name. (CVE-2012-5783) **Affected Packages:** jakarta-commons-httpclient **Issue Correction:** Run _yum update jakarta-commons-httpclient_ to update your system. **New Packages:** noarch:     jakarta-commons-httpclient-javadoc-3.1-12.6.amzn1.noarch     jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-12.6.amzn1.noarch     jakarta-commons-httpclient-manual-3.1-12.6.amzn1.noarch     jakarta-commons-httpclient-demo-3.1-12.6.amzn1.noarch src:     jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-12.6.amzn1.src ### Additional References Red Hat: [CVE-2012-5783](<https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5783>) Mitre: [CVE-2012-5783](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2012-5783>)


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
Amazon Linux 1 jakarta-commons-httpclient-javadoc 3.1-12.6.amzn1
Amazon Linux 1 jakarta-commons-httpclient 3.1-12.6.amzn1
Amazon Linux 1 jakarta-commons-httpclient-manual 3.1-12.6.amzn1
Amazon Linux 1 jakarta-commons-httpclient-demo 3.1-12.6.amzn1
Amazon Linux 1 jakarta-commons-httpclient 3.1-12.6.amzn1

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