CVE-2014-3596
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2014-08-19 | |
| Impact: | Important | What is this? |
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.
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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 5.8 |
| Vector String: | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | Medium |
| Authentication: | None |
| 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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