CVE-2012-5805

Zen Cart PayPal IPN - Certificate Hostname Validation Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The PayPal IPN functionality in Zen Cart 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, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-5806.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

EPSS 0.0057
EPSS Percentile 43.0%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (2)
paypal/instant_payment_notification
zen-cart/zen_cart
Published Nov 04, 2012
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026