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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T21:14:16.394Z
Reserved: 2012-11-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2012-5788

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2012-11-04T22:55:03.530
Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Link: CVE-2012-5788

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