CVE-2012-3446
MEDIUM5.9EPSS 0.34%Apache Libcloud vulnerable to certificate impersonation
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3446
Description
Apache Libcloud before 0.11.1 uses an incorrect regular expression during verification of whether 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 a crafted certificate.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/libcloudfrom 0, < 0.5.0-1.1
- PyPI/apache-libcloudfrom 0, < 0.11.1
- PyPI/apache-libcloudfrom 0, < 0.11.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
References (7)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3446
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3446
- PATCHhttps://github.com/apache/libcloud
- WEBhttps://github.com/apache/libcloud/commit/f2af5502dae3ac63e656dd1b7d5f29cc82ded401
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-libcloud/PYSEC-2012-12.yaml
- WEBhttps://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/libcloud/trunk/CHANGES
- WEBhttp://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf