CVE-2020-13482 – rubygem-em-http-request: missing SSL hostname validation allows MITM

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2020-13482

25 May 2020 — 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. EM-HTTP-Request versión 1.1.5, usa la biblioteca eventmachine en una manera no segura que permite a un atacante llevar a cabo un ataque de tipo man-in-the-middle contra los usuarios de la biblioteca. El nombre de host en un certificado de servidor TLS no es verificado. A flaw was found in r... • https://github.com/igrigorik/em-http-request/issues/339 • CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation CWE-297: Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch •