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CVE-2012-5583
phpCAS before 1.3.2 does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName…
Medium5.8EPSS 0.58%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
phpCAS before 1.3.2 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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 20 months later
· 20 months later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.58% · top 52% of all CVEs (8 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
n/a
- affected n/a
References (3)
- https://github.com/Jasig/phpCAS/blob/master/docs/ChangeLog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 51818 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- phpcas-ssl-certificate-spoofing(81208) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
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- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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