CVE-2014-3607
MEDIUM5.9EPSS 0.21%Improper Certificate Validation in vt-ldap
Published: 5/14/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
DefaultHostnameVerifier in Ldaptive (formerly vt-ldap) does not properly verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/libvt-ldap-javafrom 0, < 3.3.8-1
- Maven/edu.internet2.middleware:shibboleth-identityproviderfrom 0, < 2.4.2
- Maven/edu.vt.middleware:vt-ldapfrom 0, < 3.3.8
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
References (9)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3607
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3607
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1140438
- WEBhttps://code.google.com/archive/p/vt-middleware/issues/226
- WEBhttps://code.google.com/archive/p/vt-middleware/issues/227
- WEBhttps://code.google.com/archive/p/vt-middleware/issues/228
- WEBhttps://code.google.com/archive/p/vt-middleware/source/default/commits
- WEBhttps://code.google.com/p/vt-middleware/source/detail?r=3046
- WEBhttp://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20140919.txt