CVE-2012-5787

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-5787
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-11-04 22:55:03 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe PayPal 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-20 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Paypal Merchant Sdk - All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
github.com/paypal/SDKs/commit/5f2d6dd77fb4211dcde34e36f1864234526c5d64 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
PayPal SDK SSL Certificate Validation Security Bypass Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Security Advisory SA51184 - PayPal SDK SSL Certificate Verification Security Issue - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.cs.utexas.edu Exploit
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