GHSA-q27f-v3r6-9v77HighCVSS 7.4
Improper Certificate Validation in EM-HTTP-Request
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 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.
🎯 Affected products1
- rubygems/em-http-request:<= 1.1.5
🔗 References (8)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13482
- https://github.com/igrigorik/em-http-request/issues/339
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MKYP5TR5NTVVDX5R4HCNNH2OQR7M4X3J/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/Z32PUJA6RGBZ3TKSOTGUXZ45662S3MVF/
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-094-igrigorik-em-http-request
- https://github.com/igrigorik/em-http-request/commit/e5fa144f8d21050dd1fc15a4dc8aa34ac6f30602
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q27f-v3r6-9v77
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/em-http-request/CVE-2020-13482.yml