PT-2012-6093 · Amazon · Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Api Tools

Published 2012-11-04 · Updated 2021-05-10 · CVE-2012-5781

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 Amazon Elastic Load Balancing API Tools (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue concerns a failure to verify the server hostname against the 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 using any valid certificate, by overriding the default JDK X509TrustManager.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5781

Affected Products

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Api Tools

References · 3

• 🔥 http://cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5781 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5781 · Note