CVE-2012-5809

2012-11-0422:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

groupon redemptions

android

ssl spoofing

invalid certificate verification

cve-2012-5809

AI Score

6.5

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

31.1%

JSON

The Groupon Redemptions application for Android 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

www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf