The Amazon merchant SDK 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
Link | Resource |
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http://secunia.com/advisories/51196 | |
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf | Exploit |
History
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2012-11-04T22:00:00
Updated: 2012-11-20T10:00:00
Reserved: 2012-11-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2012-5780
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2012-11-04T22:55:03.107
Modified: 2012-11-20T04:50:52.923
Link: CVE-2012-5780
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE