Improper Certificate Validation Affecting evolution-ews package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.99% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-EVOLUTIONEWS-342196
  • 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)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:9 evolution-ews.

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. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.