Improper Certificate Validation in EM-HTTP-Request
Published: May 24, 2021
SECURITY IDENTIFIERS
- CVE: CVE-2020-13482 (NVD)
- GHSA: GHSA-q27f-v3r6-9v77
GEM
SEVERITY
CVSS v3.x: 7.4 (High)
PATCHED VERSIONS
>= 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.