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CVE-2012-5784

Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier, as used in PayPal Payments Pro, PayPal Mass Pay, PayPal Transactional Information SOAP, the Java Message…

Medium5.8EPSS 5.7%
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Description

Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier, as used in PayPal Payments Pro, PayPal Mass Pay, PayPal Transactional Information SOAP, the Java Message Service implementation in Apache ActiveMQ, and other products, does not 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 an arbitrary valid certificate.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2012-5784, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified2.0Medium5.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
5.7% · top 7.0% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.

Weakness

Affected products

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Affected packages

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