CVE-2012-5783

mediumpriority · track · 26EPSS 0.092 · 95 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

9.21% (95th) EPSS

CVSS 5.8 · medium

Is it mine?

13 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-22

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 4.9

v2.04.9mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-295USprimaryCWE-295US

affected products (13)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Amazon Linux 2all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:amazon:linux_2:-
Dell Networker≤ AUTHC <19.14cert_bundDE
Dell Networker≤ File-Level Recovery <19.14cert_bundDE
Dell Networker≤ Management Console <19.14cert_bundDE
Dell Networker≤ Management Web UI <19.14cert_bundDE
Dell Networker≤ REST API <19.14cert_bundDE
Dell Networker≤ vCenter User Interface <19.14cert_bundDE
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
apache httpclient= 3.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:httpclient:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 12.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 14.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 15.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient≥ 3.0osvUSpkg:maven/commons-httpclient/commons-httpclient

advisories (4)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-1594IBM Tivoli Network Manager: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-06-28csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer, authentisierter oder lokaler Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in IBM Tivoli Network Manager ausnutzen, um beliebigen Code auszuführen, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen, vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen, einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand herbeizuführen, seine Privilegien auszuweiten, Daten zu manipulieren, nicht spezifizierte Auswirkungen zu verursachen und einen Cross-Site-Scripting-Angriff durchzuführen.
WID-SEC-W-2023-1601Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2013-08-08csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform ausnutzen, um Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen, um Informationen zu manipulieren oder um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.
WID-SEC-W-2026-0351Dell NetWorker (Third Party Components): Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2026-02-09csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Dell NetWorker ausnutzen, um Angriffe zu starten, die die Integrität, Vertraulichkeit und Verfügbarkeit von Systemen beeinträchtigen.
GHSA-3832-9276-x7gfImproper Certificate Validation in Apache Commons HttpClient2022-05-13ghsa · osvUS
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. Note that the Commons HttpClient project is [end of life](https://hc.apache.org/httpclient-legacy/). It has been replaced by the Apache HttpComponents project in its [HttpClient](https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-5.4.x/) and [HttpCore](https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core-5.3.x/) modules. CVE-2012-5783 has been patched in [v4.0](https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/httpcomponents/httpclient/4.0/) of the Apache HttpComponents HttpClient module.

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cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2012-11-04modified 2026-06-16

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