CVE-2020-13163

Summary

CVECVE-2020-13163
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-05-19 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-03-04 21:20:00 UTC
Descriptionem-imap 0.5 uses 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-295

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Em-imap Project Em-imap 0.5 All All All
Application Em-imap Project Em-imap 0.5 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security vulnerability: missing SSL hostname validation · Issue #25 · ConradIrwin/em-imap · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
GHSL-2020-095 : Monster in the middle attack in em-imap - CVE-2020-13163 - GitHub Security Lab MISC securitylab.github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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