{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3596","details":"The getCN function in Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier does not properly 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 a certificate with a subject that specifies a common name in a field that is not the CN field. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-5784.","modified":"2025-07-16T08:16:59.104062Z","published":"2014-08-27T00:55:00Z","withdrawn":"2025-07-18T16:43:02Z","upstream":["CVE-2014-3596"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3596"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12662672/CVE-2014-3596.patch"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3596"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"axis","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/axis@1.4-20ubuntu3?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.4-20ubuntu3"}]}],"versions":["1.4-20ubuntu1","1.4-20ubuntu2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_version":"1.4-20ubuntu3","binary_name":"libaxis-java"},{"binary_version":"1.4-20ubuntu3","binary_name":"libaxis-java-doc"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2014/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3596.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]}