CVE-2012-5789 Information

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.

Reference

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79912