commons-httpclient — security advisory
Apache Commons HttpClient 3.x, as used in Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) merchant Java SDK 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.
- Products
- commons-httpclient
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 3.1-10.1
- CVEs
- CVE-2012-5783
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Apache Commons HttpClient 3.x, as used in Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) merchant Java SDK 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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-5783
commons-httpclient
Fixed versions: 3.1-10.1
commons-httpclient
Fixed versions: 3.1-10.1
commons-httpclient
Fixed versions: 3.1-10.1
Complete source record
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