What is CVE-2020-13163?

CVE-2020-13163 is a high-severity vulnerability in Em-Imap Project, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 7.4/10. Published 2020-05-19.

How severe is CVE-2020-13163?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.4 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Em-Imap Project

CVE-2020-13163

em-imap 0.5 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.

Vulnerability class: Improper Certificate Validation

EPSS: 0.008 (51.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.4 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Em-imap_project Em-imap — versions 0.5
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-13163?: CVE-2020-13163 is a high-severity vulnerability in Em-Imap Project, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 7.4/10. Published 2020-05-19.
How severe is CVE-2020-13163?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.4 out of 10.