🛡️ CVE-2012-5783 — commons-httpclient

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-295 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Improper Certificate Validation in Apache Commons HttpClient

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 It has been replaced by the Apache HttpComponents project in its [HttpClient](https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-5.4.x/) and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.

Weakness class

CVE-2012-5783 is classified as CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation. A TLS certificate is accepted without proper verification, so a man-in-the-middle can present their own.

Affected software

CVE-2012-5783 is recorded against 1 package.

  • commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient (from 3.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2022 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
access.redhat.com (Web)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
issues.apache.org (Web)
lists.opensuse.org (Web)
lists.opensuse.org (Web)
lists.opensuse.org (Web)
lists.opensuse.org (Web)
rhn.redhat.com (Web)
rhn.redhat.com (Web)
rhn.redhat.com (Web)
rhn.redhat.com (Web)
rhn.redhat.com (Web)
rhn.redhat.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-295
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient 3.0

References

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