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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-24393

TweetStream 2.6.1 uses the library eventmachine in an insecure way that does not have TLS hostname validation. This allows an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:06 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-24393

core-osv · Original source

Published 19 Feb 2021, 23:15 UTC

TweetStream 2.6.1 uses the library eventmachine in an insecure way that does not have TLS hostname validation. This allows an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.

osv:CVE-2020-24393
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-24393",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2020-24393",
    "summary": "TweetStream 2.6.1 uses the library eventmachine in an insecure way that does not have TLS hostname validation. This allows an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-24393",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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      "metrics": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"
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      ],
      "affected": [
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:52:51.265739918Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/tweetstream/tweetstream",
        "https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-096-tweetstream-tweetstream"
      ],
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 383955,
  "published_at": "2021-02-19T23:15:12.483+00:00"
}