CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-13163
7.4 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-05-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-295
Description
em-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.
Affected configurations
• em-imap project em-imap 0.5
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness
References
- https://github.com/ConradIrwin/em-imap/issues/25 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-095-conradirwin-em-imap Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ConradIrwin/em-imap/issues/25 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-095-conradirwin-em-imap Exploit, Third Party Advisory