http/conn/ssl/AbstractVerifier.java in Apache Commons HttpClient before 4.2.3 does not properly 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 a certificate with a subject that specifies a common name in a field that is not the CN field. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-5783.

The version of WebSphere Application Server installed on the remote host is 8.0.x through 8.0.0.15, 8.5.x prior to 8.5.5.20, or 9.0.x prior to 9.0.5.8. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the 6453091 advisory, including the following:

  - http/conn/ssl/SSLConnectionSocketFactory.java in Apache HttpComponents HttpClient before 4.3.6 ignores the     http.socket.timeout configuration setting during an SSL handshake, which allows remote attackers to cause     a denial of service (HTTPS call hang) via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2015-5262)

  - org.apache.http.conn.ssl.AbstractVerifier in Apache HttpComponents HttpClient before 4.3.5 and     HttpAsyncClient before 4.0.2 does not properly 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 a CN= string in a field in the distinguished name (DN) of a     certificate, as demonstrated by the foo,CN=www.apache.org string in the O field. (CVE-2014-3577)

  - http/conn/ssl/AbstractVerifier.java in Apache Commons HttpClient before 4.2.3 does not properly 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 a certificate     with a subject that specifies a common name in a field that is not the CN field. NOTE: this issue exists     because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-5783. (CVE-2012-6153)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Apache Axis2 reports :

Apache Axis2 1.7.4 is a maintenance release that includes fixes for several issues, including the following security issues : Session fixation (AXIS2-4739) and XSS (AXIS2-5683) vulnerabilities affecting the admin console. A dependency on an Apache HttpClient version affected by known security vulnerabilities (CVE-2012-6153 and CVE-2014-3577); see AXIS2-5757.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2769-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Apache Commons HttpClient did not properly verify the Common Name or subjectAltName     fields of X.509 certificates. An attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to     view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2012-5783)

    Florian Weimer discovered the fix for CVE-2012-5783 was incomplete for Apache Commons HttpClient. An     attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive information or     alter encrypted communications. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-6153)

    Subodh Iyengar and Will Shackleton discovered the fix for CVE-2012-5783 was incomplete for Apache Commons     HttpClient. An attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive     information or alter encrypted communications. (CVE-2014-3577)

    It was discovered that Apache Commons HttpClient did not properly handle read timeouts during HTTPS     handshakes. A remote attacker could trigger this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2015-5262)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager 3.5.0 is now available.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager is a visual tool for centrally managing collections of virtual servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows. This package also includes the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager API, a set of scriptable commands that give administrators the ability to perform queries and operations on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.

The Manager is a JBoss Application Server application that provides several interfaces through which the virtual environment can be accessed and interacted with, including an Administration Portal, a User Portal, and a Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API).

It was discovered that the HttpClient incorrectly extracted the host name from an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name (CN) field. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. (CVE-2012-6153, CVE-2014-3577)

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) flaw was found in the oVirt REST API. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted web page that, when visited by a user with a valid REST API session, would allow the attacker to trigger calls to the oVirt REST API.
(CVE-2014-0151)

It was found that the oVirt web admin interface did not include the HttpOnly flag when setting session IDs with the Set-Cookie header.
This flaw could make it is easier for a remote attacker to hijack an oVirt web admin session by leveraging a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. (CVE-2014-0154)

The CVE-2012-6153 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

These updated Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager packages also include numerous bug fixes and various enhancements. Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5 Manager Release Notes document, linked to in the References, for information on the most significant of these changes.

All Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues and add these enhancements.

CVE-2012-5783 and CVE-2012-6153 Apache Commons HttpClient 3.1 did 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. Thanks to Alberto Fernandez Martinez for the patch.

CVE-2014-3577 It was found that the fix for CVE-2012-6153 was incomplete: the code added to check that the server hostname matches the domain name in a subject's Common Name (CN) field in X.509 certificates was flawed. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. The fix for CVE-2012-6153 was intended to address the incomplete patch for CVE-2012-5783. The issue is now completely resolved by applying this patch and the one for the previous CVEs

This upload was prepared by Markus Koschany.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The version of IBM WebSphere Portal installed on the remote host is 8.0.0.x prior to 8.0.0.1 CF15. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities :

  - A flaw exists in 'Apache Commons HttpClient' that allows     a man-in-the-middle attacker to spoof SSL servers via a     certificate with a subject that specifies a common name     in a field that is not the CN field. (CVE-2012-6153)

  - A flaw exists in 'Apache HttpComponents' that allows a     man-in-the-middle attacker to spoof SSL servers via a     certificate with a subject that specifies a common name     in a field that is not the CN field. (CVE-2014-3577)

  - An unspecified vulnerability exists that allows an     authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the     system. (CVE-2014-4808)

  - A flaw exists due to improper recursion detection during     entity expansion. A remote attacker, via a specially     crafted XML document, can cause the system to crash,     resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-4814)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists that     allows a remote attacker to identify whether or not a     file exists based on the web server error codes.
    (CVE-2014-4821)

  - A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the     'Preview' plugin in CKEditor, which allows a remote     attacker to inject arbitrary data via unspecified     vectors. (CVE-2014-5191)

  - A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists that allows     an attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a     specially crafted URL. (CVE-2014-6171)

  - A flaw exists when the Managed Pages setting is enabled     that allows a remote, authenticated attacker to write to     pages via an XML injection attack. (CVE-2014-6193)

  - A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the Blog     Portlet, which allows an attacker to inject arbitrary     data via a specially crafted URL. (CVE-2014-8902)

Updated Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.3.2 packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7.

It was discovered that the Apache CXF incorrectly extracted the host name from an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name (CN) field. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. (CVE-2012-6153, CVE-2014-3577)

It was found that Apache WSS4J (Web Services Security for Java), as used by Apache CXF with the TransportBinding, did not, by default, properly enforce all security requirements associated with SAML SubjectConfirmation methods. A remote attacker could use this flaw to perform various types of spoofing attacks on web service endpoints secured by WSS4j that rely on SAML for authentication. (CVE-2014-3623)

The CVE-2012-6153 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.3.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages. The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Updated packages for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications, which integrates the JBoss Application Server with JBoss Hibernate and JBoss Seam.

It was discovered that the HttpClient incorrectly extracted host name from an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name (CN) field. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. (CVE-2012-6153, CVE-2014-3577)

The CVE-2012-6153 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

For additional information on these flaws, refer to the Knowledgebase article in the References section.

All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages. The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Updated packages for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.2.0 that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Platform is a platform for Java applications, which integrates the JBoss Web Server with JBoss Hibernate and JBoss Seam.

It was discovered that the HttpClient incorrectly extracted host name from an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name (CN) field. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. (CVE-2012-6153, CVE-2014-3577)

The CVE-2012-6153 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

For additional information on these flaws, refer to the Knowledgebase article in the References section.

All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.2.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages. The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Updated devtoolset-2-httpcomponents-client packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

HttpClient is an HTTP/1.1 compliant HTTP agent implementation based on httpcomponents HttpCore.

It was discovered that the HttpClient incorrectly extracted host name from an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name (CN) field. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. (CVE-2012-6153)

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

For additional information on this flaw, refer to the Knowledgebase article in the References section.

All devtoolset-2-httpcomponents-client users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

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.

It was found that the fix for CVE-2012-6153 was incomplete: the code added to check that the server hostname matches the domain name in a subject's Common Name (CN) field in X.509 certificates was flawed. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate.

It was found that the fix for CVE-2012-5783 was incomplete: the code added to check that the server host name matches the domain name in a subject's Common Name (CN) field in X.509 certificates was flawed. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate.

Updated packages for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications, which integrates the JBoss Application Server with JBoss Hibernate and JBoss Seam.

It was found that the fix for CVE-2012-5783 was incomplete: the code added to check that the server host name matches the domain name in a subject's Common Name (CN) field in X.509 certificates was flawed. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. (CVE-2012-6153)

It was discovered that the HttpClient incorrectly extracted host name from an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name (CN) field. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. (CVE-2014-3577)

The CVE-2012-6153 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

For additional information on these flaws, refer to the Knowledgebase article in the References section.

All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages. The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Updated packages for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.2.0 that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Platform is a platform for Java applications, which integrates the JBoss Web Server with JBoss Hibernate and JBoss Seam.

It was found that the fix for CVE-2012-5783 was incomplete: the code added to check that the server host name matches the domain name in a subject's Common Name (CN) field in X.509 certificates was flawed. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. (CVE-2012-6153)

It was discovered that the HttpClient incorrectly extracted host name from an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name (CN) field. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. (CVE-2014-3577)

The CVE-2012-6153 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

For additional information on these flaws, refer to the Knowledgebase article in the References section.

All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.2.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages. The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Updated jakarta-commons-httpclient and httpcomponents-client packages fix security vulnerability :

The Jakarta Commons HttpClient and Apache httpcomponents HttpClient components may be susceptible to a 'Man in the Middle Attack' due to a flaw in the default hostname verification during SSL/TLS when a specially crafted server side certificate is used (CVE-2012-6153).

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:1162 advisory.

    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java     applications based on JBoss Application Server 7.

    It was found that the fix for CVE-2012-5783 was incomplete: the code added     to check that the server host name matches the domain name in a subject's     Common Name (CN) field in X.509 certificates was flawed.
    A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server     using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. (CVE-2012-6153)

    It was discovered that the HttpClient incorrectly extracted host name from     an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name (CN) field. A man-in-the-middle     attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server using a specially     crafted X.509 certificate. (CVE-2014-3577)

    The CVE-2012-6153 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat     Product Security.

    For additional information on these flaws, refer to the Knowledgebase     article in the References section.

    All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.3.0 on Red Hat     Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7 are advised to upgrade to these updated     packages. The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to     take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Security fix for CVE-2014-3577

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Security fix for CVE-2014-3577, CVE-2012-6153

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
149787	IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0.x <= 8.0.0.15 / 8.5.x < 8.5.5.20 / 9.0.x < 9.0.5.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Web Servers	high
94419	FreeBSD : Axis2 -- Security vulnerabilities on dependency Apache HttpClient (ac18046c-9b08-11e6-8011-005056925db4)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium
86401	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Apache Commons HttpClient vulnerabilities (USN-2769-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
85712	RHEL 6 : Virtualization Manager (RHSA-2015:0158)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
83545	Debian DLA-222-1 : commons-httpclient security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
82850	IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0.0.x < 8.0.0.1 CF15 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	CGI abuses	medium
80159	RHEL 5 / 6 / 7 : JBoss EAP (RHSA-2014:2019)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
79205	RHEL 5 / 6 : JBoss EAP (RHSA-2014:1834)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
79204	RHEL 5 / 6 : JBoss EWP (RHSA-2014:1833)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
79042	RHEL 6 : devtoolset-2-httpcomponents-client (RHSA-2014:1098)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
78353	Amazon Linux AMI : jakarta-commons-httpclient (ALAS-2014-410)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
78008	RHEL 4 / 5 / 6 : JBoss EAP (RHSA-2014:1321)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
78007	RHEL 4 / 5 / 6 : JBoss EWP (RHSA-2014:1320)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
77649	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : jakarta-commons-httpclient (MDVSA-2014:170)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium
77561	RHEL 5 / 6 / 7 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.3.0 (RHSA-2014:1162)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
77445	Fedora 19 : httpcomponents-client-4.2.5-4.fc19 (2014-9629)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
77444	Fedora 20 : httpcomponents-client-4.2.5-4.fc20 (2014-9617)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
77399	Fedora 20 : jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-15.fc20 (2014-9581)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
77396	Fedora 19 : jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-15.fc19 (2014-9539)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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