VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2012-5814
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…
MEDIUM 5.8EPSS 0.57%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.57%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.57% probability · 45th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- github/gaug.es · roderick baier/weberknecht
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.