CVE-2012-5789
Published Nov 4, 2012
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5.8
- Impact score
- 4.9
- Exploitability score
- 8.6
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-20
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:paypal:payments_standard:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "34E093F8-96A1-4DA6-913B-C8CE853D16D9"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]