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Unscored CVE-2020-12619 EUVD-2020-4920GHSA-fvwq-3pcx-4fvr

MailMate before 1.11 automatically imported S/MIME certificates and thereby silently replaced existing ones. This allowed a man-in-the-midd…

Published Aug 20, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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MailMate before 1.11 automatically imported S/MIME certificates and thereby silently replaced existing ones. This allowed a man-in-the-middle attacker to obtain an email-validated S/MIME certificate from a trusted CA and replace the public key of the entity to be impersonated. This enabled the attacker to decipher further communication. The entire attack could be accomplished by sending a single email.

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