CVE-2012-5787 Information

Description

The 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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/51184 http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56445 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79913 https://github.com/paypal/SDKs/commit/5f2d6dd77fb4211dcde34e36f1864234526c5d64