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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-13163

em-imap 0.5 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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31 Oct 2026, 10:49 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-13163

core-osv · Original source

Published 19 May 2020, 22:15 UTC

em-imap 0.5 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-2020-13163
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-13163",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:47.000233987Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 382936,
  "published_at": "2020-05-19T22:15:12.09+00:00"
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