The PayPal IPN utility 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 use of the PHP fsockopen function.
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Published : 2012-11-04 22:55
Updated : 2024-02-04 18:16
NVD link : CVE-2012-5788
Mitre link : CVE-2012-5788
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2012-5788
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Products Affected
paypal
- ipn
CWE
CWE-20
Improper Input Validation