CVE-2012-5802 describes a vulnerability in the PayPal module for Ubercart, where the software fails to validate the server hostname against the X.509 certificate's Common Name or subjectAltName field. This oversight enables man-in-the-middle (MitM) attackers to spoof SSL servers using any valid certificate. With a CVSS score of 5.8, this medium-severity vulnerability could lead to partial confidentiality and integrity compromise without authentication, requiring moderate attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:paypal:paypal:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ubercart:ubercart:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.