vdenotaris / spring-boot-security-saml-sample

SBS3 — A sample SAML 2.0 Service Provider built on Spring Boot.
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Improper Certificate Validation (CVE-2012-5783) #78

Open vdenotaris opened 5 years ago

vdenotaris commented 5 years ago

Improper Certificate Validation commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient is a component of the Apache HttpComponents project.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle attacks due to not verifying that the requesting server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

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