CVE-2011-5237

2012-11-0611:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

cve-2011-5237

paypal

wps toolkit

certificate

verification

vulnerability

ssl

man-in-the-middle

attack

x.509

spoofing

AI Score

6.5

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

39.9%

JSON

PayPal WPS ToolKit 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.

References

www.unrest.ca/peerjacking