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.
Find out more about CVE-2014-3596 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Note that Axis 1 is EOL upstream, and the incomplete patch for CVE-2012-5784 was never merged upstream. It was, however, shipped by various vendors, including Debian and Red Hat. Additional information can be found in the Red Hat Knowledgebase article: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1164433
| Base Score | 5.8 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | None |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (axis) | RHSA-2014:1193 | 2014-09-15 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (axis) | RHSA-2014:1193 | 2014-09-15 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform 6 | axis | Affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Portal 5 | axis | Affected |
| RHEV Manager 3 | jasperreports-server-pro | Affected |
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