PT-2012-2216 · Civicrm · Civicrm

Published 2012-11-06 · Updated 2012-11-06 · CVE-2011-5239

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions CiviCRM versions 4.0.5 and 4.1.1

Description The issue arises from the failure to verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

Recommendations For version 4.0.5, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue. For version 4.1.1, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-5239

Affected Products

Civicrm

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-5239 · Security Note
• http://unrest.ca/peerjacking · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-5239 · Note