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CVE-2020-13482

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: May 25, 2020 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.4
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/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
7.4 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Ubuntu
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13482
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/295.html

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.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Em-http-request Em-http-request_project 1.1.5 (including) 1.1.5 (including)
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 Operational Tools for RHEL 7 RedHat rubygem-em-http-request-0:1.1.5-4.el7ost *

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