CVE-2012-5811

Severity

57%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

81%

The Breezy application for Android 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.

The Breezy application for Android 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 Base Score 5.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-11-04 22:55:00

Last updated 9 years ago

2015-11-04 17:34:00

Affected Software

Breezy application for Android

android

References

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

Exploit

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