CVE-2012-5806
PayPal Payments Pro - Man-in-the-Middle Attack via Improper Certificate Validation
Title source: llmDescription
The PayPal Payments Pro module 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, related to use of the PHP fsockopen function, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-5805.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Exploit x_refsource_misc
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
Scores
EPSS
0.0057
EPSS Percentile
43.0%
Details
CWE
CWE-20
Status
published
Products (2)
paypal/payments_pro
zen-cart/zen_cart
Published
Nov 04, 2012
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026