Description
The Amazon 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.
References
- 51196 third-party-advisory
- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf