CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-3890

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Aug 01, 2019 | Modified: Oct 09, 2019
CVSS 3.x
8.1
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
8.1 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

It was discovered evolution-ews before 3.31.3 does not check the validity of SSL certificates. An attacker could abuse this flaw to get confidential information by tricking the user into connecting to a fake server without the user noticing the difference.

Weakness

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Evolution-ews Gnome * 3.31.3 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat atk-0:2.28.1-2.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat evolution-0:3.28.5-8.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat evolution-data-server-0:3.28.5-4.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat evolution-ews-0:3.28.5-5.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat evolution-0:3.28.5-9.el8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat evolution-data-server-0:3.28.5-11.el8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat evolution-ews-0:3.28.5-5.el8 *
Evolution-ews Ubuntu bionic *
Evolution-ews Ubuntu cosmic *
Evolution-ews Ubuntu disco *
Evolution-ews Ubuntu eoan *
Evolution-ews Ubuntu groovy *
Evolution-ews Ubuntu hirsute *
Evolution-ews Ubuntu impish *
Evolution-ews Ubuntu kinetic *
Evolution-ews Ubuntu lunar *
Evolution-ews Ubuntu mantic *
Evolution-ews Ubuntu trusty *
Evolution-ews Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References