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.
CVE-2012-5784 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 5 products from apache, from apache, from paypal and 2 others, organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.
Documented in 2012, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.
2012-11-04T22:55:03.327
2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Deferred
CVSSv2: 5.8 (MEDIUM)
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
8.6
4.9
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | apache | activemq | ≤ 5.7.0 | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | ≤ 1.4 | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | - | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | - | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | - | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | - | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | - | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | - | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | 1.0 | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | 1.0 | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | 1.0 | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | 1.0 | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | 1.1 | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | 1.1 | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | 1.1 | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | 1.1 | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | 1.2 | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | 1.2 | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | 1.2 | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | 1.2 | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | 1.2 | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | 1.2 | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | 1.2 | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | 1.2 | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | 1.2.1 | Yes |
| Application | apache | axis | 1.3 | Yes |
| Application | paypal | mass_pay | - | Yes |
| Application | paypal | payments_pro | - | Yes |
| Application | paypal | transactional_information_soap | - | Yes |
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