CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-12618

4.8 MEDIUM Published 2020-08-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-08-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Description

eM Client before 7.2.33412.0 automatically imported S/MIME certificates and thereby silently replaced existing ones. This allowed a man-in-the-middle attacker to obtain an email-validated S/MIME certificate from a trusted CA and replace the public key of the entity to be impersonated. This enabled the attacker to decipher further communication. The entire attack could be accomplished by sending a single email.

Affected configurations

• emclient em client (< 7.2.33412.0)

References