CVE-2012-5783

medium

Published 2012-11-04 · Modified 2026-02-04

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.8

Description

Improper Certificate Validation in Apache Commons HttpClient

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
15.04	Affected	—
14.04	Affected	—
12.04	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`3.1-10.1`
sid	Fixed	`3.1-10.1`
forky	Fixed	`3.1-10.1`
bullseye	Fixed	`3.1-10.1`
bookworm	Fixed	`3.1-10.1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Maven	commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient	`>=3.0`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
apache	httpclient	`3.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-295

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.