Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 4, 2012· Updated Apr 29, 2026
CVE-2012-5788
CVE-2012-5788
Description
The PayPal IPN utility 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 use of the PHP fsockopen function.
Affected products
1Patches
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