National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-5790

Overview

PayPal Payments Standard PHP Library 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 misinterpretation of a certain TRUE value.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: paypal-php-library-ssl-spoofing(79981)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/79981

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf

Hyperlink:http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf