CVE-2014-3596

CVE Details

Release Date:

2014-08-19

Description

It was discovered that Axis incorrectly extracted the host name from an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name (CN) field. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate.

See more information about CVE-2014-3596 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	5.8	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (axis)	ELSA-2014-1193	2014-09-15
Oracle Linux version 6 (axis)	ELSA-2014-1193	2014-09-15

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