CVE-2012-5789

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.

CVSS v2.0 5.8 MEDIUM

5.8^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 4.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact NONE

References

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

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:paypal:payments_standard:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

21 Nov 2024, 01:45

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References	~~() http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf - Exploit~~	() http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf - Exploit
References	~~() https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79912 -~~	() https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79912 -

Information

Published : 2012-11-04 22:55

Updated : 2024-11-21 01:45

NVD link : CVE-2012-5789

Mitre link : CVE-2012-5789

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2012-5789

JSON object : View

Products Affected

paypal

payments_standard

CWE

CWE-20

Improper Input Validation

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