High
Security advisory
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.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-13482
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:49 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2020-13482
Complete source record
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