CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-5787
5.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-11-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The PayPal merchant SDK 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.
Affected configurations
• paypal merchant sdk
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51184 secunia.com
- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56445 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79913 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://github.com/paypal/SDKs/commit/5f2d6dd77fb4211dcde34e36f1864234526c5d64 github.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51184 secunia.com
- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56445 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79913 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://github.com/paypal/SDKs/commit/5f2d6dd77fb4211dcde34e36f1864234526c5d64 github.com