CVE-2014-3607
DefaultHostnameVerifier in Ldaptive (formerly vt-ldap) does not properly verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the…
- 5.9MediumCVSS base score
- 0.87%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 41% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
DefaultHostnameVerifier in Ldaptive (formerly vt-ldap) does not properly verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) 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
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 | 3.0 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.87% · top 41% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenedu.internet2.middleware:shibboleth-identityproviderGHSA-273v-g3x4-r3rc (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenedu.vt.middleware:vt-ldapGHSA-273v-g3x4-r3rc (opens in a new tab)
References
5
- http://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20140919.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1140438 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://code.google.com/archive/p/vt-middleware/issues/227 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://code.google.com/archive/p/vt-middleware/issues/226 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://code.google.com/archive/p/vt-middleware/issues/228 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2022-1923 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-273v-g3x4-r3rc (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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