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[jira] [Commented] (AXIS-2883) Insecure certificate validation
CVE-2012-5784
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-2883?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13581365#comment-13581365 ]
Mark Sigler commented on AXIS-2883:
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Is this also related to CVE-2012-5785?
> 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-2012-5784-2.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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