Advisory Weakness Curation

Improper Validation of Certificates in apache axis The getCN function in Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier does not properly 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 a certificate with a subject that specifies a common name in a field that is not the CN field. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-5784.

Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch The `getCN` function in Apache Axis does not properly 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 a certificate with a subject that specifies a common name in a field that is not the `CN` field.