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Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 4, 2012· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2012-5783

CVE-2012-5783

Description

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.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
commons-httpclient:commons-httpclientMaven
>= 3.0

Affected products

148

Patches

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