Improper Certificate Validation Affecting evolution-langpacks package, versions <0:3.28.5-8.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-EVOLUTIONLANGPACKS-8011164
  • published17 Sept 2024
  • disclosed15 Feb 2019

Introduced: 15 Feb 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?

Upgrade RHEL:7 evolution-langpacks to version 0:3.28.5-8.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:1080.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream evolution-langpacks package and not the evolution-langpacks package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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.