CVE-2012-5792 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Sage Pay Direct module in osCommerce 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.

Published: 2012-11-04

Score: 5.8 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:oscommerce:oscommerce:-:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:sagepay:sage_pay_direct_module:-:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2012-5672	The Sage Pay Direct module in osCommerce 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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00134.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79979

History

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Subscriptions

Oscommerce Oscommerce

Sagepay Sage Pay Direct Module

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2012-11-04T22:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T21:14:16.376Z

Reserved: 2012-11-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-5792

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-11-04T22:55:03.687

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2012-5792

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-20

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