GHSA-q27f-v3r6-9v77

Improper Certificate Validation in EM-HTTP-Request

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2020-13482

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	em-http-request	< 1.1.6	1.1.6

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13482 advisory
https://github.com/igrigorik/em-http-request/issues/339 web
https://github.com/igrigorik/em-http-request/commit/e5fa144f8d21050dd1fc15a4dc8aa34ac6f30602 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q27f-v3r6-9v77 advisory
https://github.com/igrigorik/em-http-request package
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/em-http-request/CVE-2020-13482.yml web
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MKYP5TR5NTVVDX5R4HCNNH2OQR7M4X3J web
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/Z32PUJA6RGBZ3TKSOTGUXZ45662S3MVF web
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-094-igrigorik-em-http-request advisory