Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2012-5789
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.8
EPSS
0.57%
Original Filing — NVD Description
PayPal Payments Standard PHP Library before 20120427 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 intentional disabling of certificate-validation checks through a "FALSE" value.