Critical
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-12637
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:21 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"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"
}