{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6153","details":"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.","modified":"2026-09-05T06:47:31.784125164Z","published":"2014-09-04T17:55:04.623Z","upstream":["CVE-2012-6153"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6153"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"commons-httpclient","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/commons-httpclient?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.1-10.2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6153.json"}},{"package":{"name":"commons-httpclient","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/commons-httpclient?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.1-10.2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6153.json"}},{"package":{"name":"commons-httpclient","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/commons-httpclient?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.1-10.2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6153.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}