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SCA: security update for org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient (GHSA-2x83-r56g-cv47)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421973

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - http/conn/ssl/AbstractVerifier.java in Apache Commons HttpClient before 4.2.3 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-2012-5783. (CVE-2012-6153)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2x83-r56g-cv47

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421973

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-6153

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/17/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/13/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6153

BID: 69257

cwe: CWE-20