Medium 5.8 CVSS 2.0 canadapost Published on 2012-11-04

The Canada Post (aka CanadaPost) module in PrestaShop does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or…

CVECVE-2012-5799 GHSANo GHSA advisory

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Description

The Canada Post (aka CanadaPost) module in PrestaShop 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.

Original text by NVD (NIST), public domain.

CVSS metrics 2.0

Source: nvd@nist.gov · primary

Medium 5.8

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

ConfidentialityPARTIAL

IntegrityPARTIAL

AvailabilityNone

References

Exploitcs.utexas.edu
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf

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