K15741 : Apache Commons HttpClient vulnerability CVE-2012-6153

Security Advisory 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. (CVE-2012-6153)

Note: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-5783.

Impact

None. No F5 products are affected by this vulnerability.