CVE-2012-5784: Apache ActiveMQ

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 5.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Apache ActiveMQ: up to and including 5.7.0
• Apache Axis: up to and including 1.4; affected versions not specified; version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only; version 1.2.1 only; …
• PayPal Mass Pay: affected versions not specified
• PayPal Payments Pro: affected versions not specified
• PayPal Transactional Information Soap: affected versions not specified

Published 2012-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.