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Unscored CVE-2012-5788 EUVD-2012-5668GHSA-4f82-64j5-842v

The PayPal IPN utility does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName f…

Published Nov 4, 2012 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

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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