CVE-2013-0253
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.8
Description
The default configuration of Apache Maven 3.0.4, when using Maven Wagon 2.1, disables SSL certificate checks, which allows remote attackers to spoof servers via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.
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.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache | maven | 3.0.4 | |
| apache | maven_wagon | 2.1 | |
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0700.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917084
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
- https://maven.apache.org/security.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0700.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917084
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
- https://maven.apache.org/security.html
CWEs
CWE-16
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.