Improper Certificate Validation (CVE-2012-5783)

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Improper Certificate Validation
commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient is a component of the Apache HttpComponents project.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle attacks due to not verifying that the requesting server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

Depending on

• org.springframework.security.extensions:spring-security-saml2-core:jar:1.0.9.RELEASE
  See: HTTPClient 3.1 has a vulnerability (CVE 2012-5783) spring-attic/spring-security-saml#459