Cryptographic issues in Smack - CVE-2014-5075

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Cryptographic issues in Smack - CVE-2014-5075

Published: April 10, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU107366
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-5075
CWE-ID: CWE-310
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to spoof SSL servers.

The vulnerability exists due to Ignite Realtime Smack XMPP API when a custom SSLContext is used, does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate. A remote attacker can perform a man-in-the-middle attack to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.


Affected software

Smack
IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions

How to mitigate CVE-2014-5075

Install updates from vendor's website.

Smack - update to 4.0.2
IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions - update to 8.0.7

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