{"id":"GHSA-3832-9276-x7gf","summary":"Improper Certificate Validation in Apache Commons HttpClient","details":"Apache Commons HttpClient 3.x, as used in Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) merchant Java SDK 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.\n\nNote that the Commons HttpClient project is [end of life](https://hc.apache.org/httpclient-legacy/). It has been replaced by the Apache HttpComponents project in its [HttpClient](https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-5.4.x/) and [HttpCore](https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core-5.3.x/) modules. CVE-2012-5783 has been patched in [v4.0](https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/httpcomponents/httpclient/4.0/) of the Apache HttpComponents HttpClient module.","aliases":["CVE-2012-5783"],"modified":"2026-09-10T03:49:07.300846048Z","published":"2022-05-13T01:10:34Z","database_specific":{"nvd_published_at":"2012-11-04T22:55:00Z","cwe_ids":["CWE-295"],"severity":"MODERATE","github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2022-07-13T13:58:59Z"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5783"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0868"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79984"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-client"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1265"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00078.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00040.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00041.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00053.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0270.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0679.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0680.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0682.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1853.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0224.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2769-1"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient","ecosystem":"Maven","purl":"pkg:maven/commons-httpclient/commons-httpclient"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"3.0"}]}],"versions":["20020423","3.0","3.0.1","3.1","3.1-alpha1","3.1-beta1","3.1-jenkins-1","3.1-jenkins-2","3.1-jenkins-3","3.1-rc1"],"database_specific":{"last_known_affected_version_range":"\u003c 4.0","source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-3832-9276-x7gf/GHSA-3832-9276-x7gf.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}