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CVE DATABASE  /  CVE-2012-5806

CVE-2012-5806

CVSS 5.8 · MEDIUM

Summary

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.

CVSS 2.0 breakdown

Base score5.8 (MEDIUM)
VectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Attack vectorNETWORK
Attack complexityMEDIUM
ConfidentialityPARTIAL
IntegrityPARTIAL
AvailabilityNONE

Weakness type (CWE)

Affected products

Paypal payments proZen-cart zen cart
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References

Data: NIST NVD. NVD last modified 2026-04-29. Always verify against the vendor advisory before acting.

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