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High severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient

Description

http/conn/ssl/AbstractVerifier.java in Apache Commons HttpClient before 4.2.3 does not properly 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 a certificate with a subject that specifies a common name in a field that is not the CN field. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-5783.


Affected Software


CPE Name Name Version
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.0
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.0-alpha1
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.0-alpha2
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.0-alpha3
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.0-alpha4
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.0-beta1
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.0-beta2
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.0.1
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.0.2
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.0.3
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.1
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.1-alpha1
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.1-alpha2
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.1-beta1
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.1.1
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.1.2
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.1.3
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.2
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.2-alpha1
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.2-beta1
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.2.1
org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient 4.2.2

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