GHSA-55w9-c3g2-4rrh · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — Man-in-the-middle attack in Apache Axis
Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier, as used in PayPal Payments Pro, PayPal Mass Pay, PayPal Transactional Information SOAP, the Java Message Service implementation in Apache ActiveMQ, 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.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2012-5784 is rated High Exploit Risk (74.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 5.72%, 92th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +4.16% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
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| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 1.57% | 5.72% | +4.16% |
| 2 | 2026-03-11 | 1.20% | 1.57% | +0.36% |
| 3 | 2025-12-01 | — | 1.20% | — |
Full EPSS history (12 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.8 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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8.6 | 4.9 | [email protected] |
GHSA-55w9-c3g2-4rrh · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — Man-in-the-middle attack in Apache Axis
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
|
low | CVE-2012-5784 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (axis), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5784 |
redhat
|
medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5784 |
suse
|
medium | CVE-2012-5784 severity moderate: SUSE including 11 source package names (axis-1.4-11.65, axis-1.4-150200.13.6.4, …), 22 product×package rows across 20 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15, … (20 product lines)): Fixed 22. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5784/ |
ubuntu
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low | CVE-2012-5784 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (axis), 15 status rows across 15 suites (hardy, lucid, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 8, ignored 5, DNE 1, released 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-5784 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache | activemq | <= 5.7.0 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:activemq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | <= 1.4 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | — | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:-:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | — | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:-:alpha2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | — | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:-:alpha3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | — | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:-:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | — | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:-:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | — | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:-:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | 1.0 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | 1.0 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | 1.0 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | 1.0 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | 1.1 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | 1.1 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.1:beta:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | 1.1 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | 1.1 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | 1.2 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | 1.2 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.2:alpha:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | 1.2 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.2:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | 1.2 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.2:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | 1.2 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.2:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | 1.2 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.2:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | 1.2 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.2:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | 1.2 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.2:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | 1.2.1 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| apache | axis | 1.3 | cpe:2.3:a:apache:axis:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| paypal | mass_pay | — | cpe:2.3:a:paypal:mass_pay:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| paypal | payments_pro | — | cpe:2.3:a:paypal:payments_pro:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| paypal | transactional_information_soap | — | cpe:2.3:a:paypal:transactional_information_soap:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |