Improper Certificate Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package evolution-ews  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-EVOLUTIONEWS-342203
  • published5 Apr 2019
  • disclosed1 Aug 2019

Introduced: 5 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-3890  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-296  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream evolution-ews package and not the evolution-ews package as distributed by Debian.

It was discovered evolution-ews before 3.31.3 does not check the validity of SSL certificates. An attacker could abuse this flaw to get confidential information by tricking the user into connecting to a fake server without the user noticing the difference.