CVE-2012-5789 | BDVDB-2026-53291 Detail

Description#

PayPal Payments Standard PHP Library before 20120427 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, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate, related to intentional disabling of certificate-validation checks through a "FALSE" value.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79912
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12012-11-04Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-06Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.