CVE-2014-3607

Publication date 8 January 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.9 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libvt-ldap-java 15.04 vivid
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.9 · Medium

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


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