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[jira] [Created] (AXIS-2883) Insecure certificate validation CVE-2012-5784

Alberto Fernández created AXIS-2883:
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             Summary: Insecure certificate validation CVE-2012-5784
                 Key: AXIS-2883
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-2883
             Project: Axis
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 1.4
         Environment: All
            Reporter: Alberto Fernández
         Attachments: CVE-2012-5784.patch

See. 
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf 

Using JSSE you must manually validate server name you're connecting to matches one of the names provided by the certificate. So you can detect a man-in-the-middle type attack with a valid certificate for other site. 

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5784



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[jira] [Updated] (AXIS-2883) Insecure certificate validation CVE-2012-5784

Posted by "Alberto Fernández (JIRA)" <ax...@ws.apache.org>.
     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-2883?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Alberto Fernández updated AXIS-2883:
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    Attachment: CVE-2012-5784.patch

Patch that validates certificate DNSSubjectAlts/CN matches the server name we are trying to connect to
                
> Insecure certificate validation CVE-2012-5784
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AXIS-2883
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-2883
>             Project: Axis
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.4
>         Environment: All
>            Reporter: Alberto Fernández
>         Attachments: CVE-2012-5784.patch
>
>
> See. 
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf 
> Using JSSE you must manually validate server name you're connecting to matches one of the names provided by the certificate. So you can detect a man-in-the-middle type attack with a valid certificate for other site. 
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5784

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