CVE-2012-5817

7.4
HIGHCVSS v3.1 Base Score
0.78%
LOW RiskEPSS (54th percentile)

Codehaus XFire 1.2.6 and earlier, as used in the Amazon EC2 API Tools Java library 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.

Published: 11/4/2012
Modified: 6/16/2026
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Vulnerability Summary

CVSS v3 Score

7.4HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2 Score

5.8

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

EPSS Score (Exploitation Probability)

0.78%LOW Exploitation Risk
54th percentile

This vulnerability has a 0.78% probability of being exploited in the next 30 days, ranking higher than 54% of all scored CVEs.

CWE Classification

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