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Security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-12637

Zulip Desktop before 5.2.0 has Missing SSL Certificate Validation because all validation was inadvertently disabled during an attempt to recognize the ignoreCerts option.

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CVE-2020-12637
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1 Nov 2026, 07:21 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-12637

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 May 2020, 17:15 UTC

Zulip Desktop before 5.2.0 has Missing SSL Certificate Validation because all validation was inadvertently disabled during an attempt to recognize the ignoreCerts option.

osv:CVE-2020-12637
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-12637",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-12637",
    "summary": "Zulip Desktop before 5.2.0 has Missing SSL Certificate Validation because all validation was inadvertently disabled during an attempt to recognize the ignoreCerts option.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-12637",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
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                        "introduced": "0.5.10"
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        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:52.216779043Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://blog.zulip.org/2020/05/06/zulip-desktop-5-2-0-security-release/"
      ],
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 437654,
  "published_at": "2020-05-09T17:15:11.613+00:00"
}