Vulnerability Details CVE-2012-5788
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 34.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 5.8
Products affected by CVE-2012-5788