CVE-2014-5075

smack: MitM vulnerability

Published Oct 25, 2014 CVSS 2.0 · 6.8 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
The Ignite Realtime Smack XMPP API 4.x before 4.0.2, and 3.x and 2.x when a custom SSLContext is used, 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.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-4974 The Ignite Realtime Smack XMPP API 4.x before 4.0.2, and 3.x and 2.x when a custom SSLContext is used, 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 11:34 AM
Reserved
Jul 24, 2014, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 25, 2014, 9:55 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:10 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Aug 5, 2014, 12:00 AM