CVE-2012-5783
Apache Commons HttpClient 3.x, as used in Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) merchant Java SDK and other products, does not verify…
- 5.8MediumCVSS base score
- 9.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 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)
- 9.3% · top 4.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavencommons-httpclient:commons-httpclientGHSA-3832-9276-x7gf (opens in a new tab)
References
18
- RHSA-2013:0681 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1265 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0622 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0680 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0868 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0354 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 58073 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- apache-commons-ssl-spoofing(79984) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0270 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0682 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0638 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0623 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:1853 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0679 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:1147 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-2769-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:0224 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-2129 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-3832-9276-x7gf (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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