K14371 : Apache Axis vulnerability CVE-2012-5784

Security Advisory Description

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. (CVE-2012-5784)

The Apache axis.jar file included with iControl Assembly 11.2 and earlier is vulnerable to CVE-2012-5784.

Impact

Affected systems may be vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack where attackers spoof SSL servers through an arbitrary valid certificate.