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CVE-2012-5784

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5784 describes a critical vulnerability in Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier, impacting products like PayPal Payments Pro and Apache ActiveMQ. The flaw allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers because the software fails to properly verify that the server's hostname matches the domain name in the X.509 certificate. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.8) has a network attack vector and low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial compromise of confidentiality and integrity. Despite its age, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:activemq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:-:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:-:alpha2:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:-:alpha3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0572 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 19,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: devtoolset-2-axis-0:1.4-23.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: axis-0:1.2.1-2jpp.7.el5_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: axis-0:1.2.1-7.3.el6_3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEV Manager version 3.3Fixed in: jasperreports-server-pro-0:5.5.0-4.el6ev
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Portal 5Fixed in: axis

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-55w9-c3g2-4rrhmedium

Man-in-the-middle attack in Apache Axis

Oct 7, 2020
redhatCVE-2012-5784Moderate

axis: missing connection hostname check against X.509 certificate name

Oct 16, 2012

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00007.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00022.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0269.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0683.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0037.html
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/51219
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/79829
lists.apache.org / thread.html/44d4e88a5fa8ae60deb752029afe9054da87c5f859caf296fcf585e5%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/5e6c92145deddcecf70c3604041dcbd615efa2d37632fc2b9c367780%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/8aa25c99eeb0693fc229ec87d1423b5ed5d58558618706d8aba1d832%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/a308887782e05da7cf692e4851ae2bd429a038570cbf594e6631cc8d%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/de2af12dcaba653d02b03235327ca4aa930401813a3cced8e151d29c%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
cs.utexas.edu / ~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
ExploitTechnical Description
securityfocus.com / bid/56408
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry