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 against users of the library. The hostname in a TLS server certificate is not verified.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.4 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2020-05-25

Last modified

2024-08-04

Weaknesses

CWE-295

Affected products

• Em-http-request (Em-http-request Project)
• Fedora (Fedoraproject)

References

• https://github.com/igrigorik/em-http-request/issues/339
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MKYP5TR5NTVVDX5R4HCNNH…
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z32PUJA6RGBZ3TKSOTGUXZ…
• https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-094-igrigorik-em-http-request