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CVE-2014-3596

Public on 2014-08-27
Modified on 2014-09-19
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.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 axis 2014-09-17 21:47 ALAS-2014-412

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N