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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLXA2cDgtcTRwai1mNzRt

Improper Certificate Validation in twitter-stream

In voloko twitter-stream 0.1.16, missing TLS hostname validation allows an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack against users of the library (because eventmachine is misused).

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p6p8-q4pj-f74m
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: over 2 years ago
Updated: 8 months ago

CVSS Score: 5.9
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-p6p8-q4pj-f74m, CVE-2020-24392
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24392
• https://github.com/voloko/twitter-stream
• https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-097-voloko-twitter-stream
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p6p8-q4pj-f74m

Affected Packages