CVE-2014-3603

Publication date 4 April 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.9 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

The (1) HttpResource and (2) FileBackedHttpResource implementations in Shibboleth Identity Provider (IdP) before 2.4.1 and OpenSAML Java 2.6.2 do 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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libopensaml2-java 14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.9 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N


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