CVE-2012-5781

Published: Nov 4, 2012Modified: Apr 29, 2026

5.8

Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Exploitability: 8.6 / Impact: 4.9

Source: NVD

Description

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing API Tools 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, related to overriding the default JDK X509TrustManager.

Affected (11)

Products: Amazon: Elastic Load Balancing

Amazon

1 product

Elastic Load Balancing

Configuration A

11 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing	All versions
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing	Version 1.0.10.0
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing	Version 1.0.11.1
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing	Version 1.0.12.0
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing	Version 1.0.14.3
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing	Version 1.0.15.1
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing	Version 1.0.17.0
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing	Version 1.0.3.4
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing	Version 1.0.9.3
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing	Version 1.0
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing	Version 1.0 1

Related CWEs

CWE-20

Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

References (2)

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Exploit

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