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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2020-24392 EUVD-2021-0687GHSA-p6p8-q4pj-f74m

Improper Certificate Validation in twitter-stream

Published Feb 19, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

In voloko twitter-stream 0.1.10, missing TLS hostname validation allows an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack against users of the library (because eventmachine is misused).

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 12 ruby-twitter-stream No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ruby-twitter-stream No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ruby-twitter-stream No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ruby-twitter-stream No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ruby-twitter-stream No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ruby-twitter-stream No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
RubyGems twitter-stream <= 0.1.16 — GHSA-p6p8-q4pj-f74m

References