CVE-2012-5817 describes a critical vulnerability in Codehaus XFire 1.2.6 and earlier, including its use in the Amazon EC2 API Tools Java library, where the software fails to properly verify server hostnames against X.509 certificate fields. This oversight enables man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks, allowing adversaries to spoof SSL servers using any valid certificate. With a CVSS v3.1 score of 7.4 (High), the vulnerability is network-exploitable with high impact on confidentiality and integrity, though it requires high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:amazon:ec2_api_tools_java_library:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 1.2.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:codehaus:xfire:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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