CVE-2010-4211

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-287 Authentication Issues

Publication date:

09/11/2010

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

The PayPal app before 3.0.1 for iOS does not verify that the server hostname matches the domain name of the subject of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof a PayPal web server via an arbitrary certificate.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.90 LOW
Vector: AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

2.90

Severity 2.0

LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ebay:paypal::::::::		3.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:3.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:3.1.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:3.1.3:::::::*

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CVE-2010-4211

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools