Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 4, 2012· Updated Apr 29, 2026
CVE-2012-5781
CVE-2012-5781
Description
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing API Tools 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, related to overriding the default JDK X509TrustManager.
Affected products
11cpe:2.3:a:amazon:elastic_load_balancing:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 10 more
- cpe:2.3:a:amazon:elastic_load_balancing:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:amazon:elastic_load_balancing:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:amazon:elastic_load_balancing:1.0:1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:amazon:elastic_load_balancing:1.0.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:amazon:elastic_load_balancing:1.0.11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:amazon:elastic_load_balancing:1.0.12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:amazon:elastic_load_balancing:1.0.14.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:amazon:elastic_load_balancing:1.0.15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:amazon:elastic_load_balancing:1.0.17.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:amazon:elastic_load_balancing:1.0.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:amazon:elastic_load_balancing:1.0.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
1- www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdfnvdExploit
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