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Vulnerability CVE-2012-5791
Published: 2012-11-04 Modified: 2012-11-05
| Description: |
PayPal Invoicing 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. |
Type:
CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation)
CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
| CVSS Base Score |
Impact Subscore |
Exploitability Subscore |
5.8/10 |
4.9/10 |
8.6/10 |
| Exploit range |
Attack complexity |
Authentication |
Remote |
Medium |
No required |
| Confidentiality impact |
Integrity impact |
Availability impact |
Partial |
Partial |
None |
References: |
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
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