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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2012-11-04T22:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T21:14:16.381Z

Reserved: 2012-11-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2012-5789

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-11-04T22:55:03.577

Modified: 2017-08-29T01:32:45.980

Link: CVE-2012-5789

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