CVE-2012-5788

Publication date

2012-11-04 22:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The PayPal IPN utility does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subjects 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.