Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 4, 2012· Updated Apr 29, 2026
CVE-2012-5806
CVE-2012-5806
Description
The PayPal Payments Pro module in Zen Cart 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, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-5805.
Affected products
2- cpe:2.3:a:paypal:payments_pro:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
1- www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdfnvdExploit
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