CVE-2012-5785: Apache AXIS2

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apache Axis2/Java 1.6.2 and earlier 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 AXIS2: up to and including 1.6.2; version 1.5.1 only; version 1.5.2 only; version 1.5.3 only; version 1.5.4 only; version 1.5.5 only; …

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