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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2012-11-04T22:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T21:14:16.436Z
Reserved: 2012-11-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2012-5787
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2012-11-04T22:55:03.497
Modified: 2017-08-29T01:32:45.887
Link: CVE-2012-5787
Redhat
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