Vulnerability CVE-2012-5814


Published: 2012-11-04   Modified: 2012-11-05

Description:
Weberknecht, as used in GitHub Gaug.es 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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.8/10
4.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
Roderick baier -> Weberknecht 
Github -> Gaug.es 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/79937
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf

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