PT-2021-11030 · Unknown · Eventmachine+1

Agustin Gianni + 1 · Published 2021-02-19 · Updated 2021-04-13 · CVE-2020-24393

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: TweetStream version 2.6.1

Description: The issue allows an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack due to the insecure use of the eventmachine library, which lacks TLS hostname validation.

Recommendations: For TweetStream version 2.6.1, consider disabling the use of the eventmachine library until a secure version is available, or apply a configuration change to enforce TLS hostname validation if possible. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Improper Certificate Validation

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-295

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-24393

GHSA-6HRM-JQP3-64CV

Affected Products

Tweetstream

Eventmachine

References · 7

• 🔥 https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-096-tweetstream-tweetstream · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-6hrm-jqp3-64cv · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-24393 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24393 · Security Note
• https://github.com/tweetstream/tweetstream · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/10654 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/10185 · Telegram Post