Upstream information
Description
http/conn/ssl/AbstractVerifier.java in Apache Commons HttpClient before 4.2.3 does not properly verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a certificate with a subject that specifies a common name in a field that is not the CN field. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-5783.SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1068865 [RESOLVED / FIXED] No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Fri Oct 7 12:46:21 2022CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 7 12:46:21 2022