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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLTRmNjgtNDlxcS1oMzky

Improper certificate validation in em-imap

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.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4f68-49qq-h392
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: almost 3 years ago
Updated: 8 months ago

CVSS Score: 7.4
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-4f68-49qq-h392, CVE-2020-13163
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13163
• https://github.com/ConradIrwin/em-imap/issues/25
• https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-095-conradirwin-em-imap
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4f68-49qq-h392

Repository: https://github.com/ConradIrwin/em-imap
Blast Radius: 5.8

Affected Packages