GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-q27f-v3r6-9v77 Improper Certificate Validation in EM-HTTP-Request

HIGH Published 2021-05-24 Modified 2023-08-08 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2020-13482
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
em-http-request
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-295
Reviewed
2021-05-14

Affected packages

• RubyGems em-http-request: < 1.1.6 → fixed in 1.1.6

Description

EM-HTTP-Request 1.1.5 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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2020-13482 EM-HTTP-Request 1.1.5 uses the library eventmachine in an insecure way that allows an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness

References