Alberto Fernández created HTTPCLIENT-1265:
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Summary: Insercure certificate validation CVE-2012-5783
Key: HTTPCLIENT-1265
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1265
Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
Issue Type: Bug
Components: HttpClient
Affects Versions: 3.1 Final
Environment: All
Reporter: Alberto Fernández
See.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
Using JSSE you must manually validate server name you're connecting to matches
one of the names provided by the certificate. So you can detect a
man-in-the-middle type attack with a valid certificado for other site.
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5783
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