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CVE-2012-5662

x3270: does not properly validate SSL certificates

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.8

CVSS 2.0

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Published · March 20, 2013

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

x3270 before 3.3.12ga12 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.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of x3270 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 as they did not include support for SSL certificate verification.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CWE not specified