PT-2012-6131 · Filesanywhere · Filesanywhere

Published 2012-11-04 · Updated 2024-02-14 · CVE-2012-5819

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 FilesAnywhere (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue arises from FilesAnywhere not verifying 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 At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Improper Certificate Validation

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-295

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5819

Affected Products

Filesanywhere

References · 3

• 🔥 http://cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5819 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79932 · Note