conradirwin/em-imap · Security
Improper certificate validation in em-imap
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-4f68-49qq-h392
- CVE ID
- CVE-2020-13163
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.4 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 7.4 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Description
em-imap 0.5 and earlier use the library eventmachine in an insecure way that allows an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack against users of the library. The hostname in a TLS server certificate is not verified.
CWEs
- CWE-295 · Improper Certificate Validation