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CVE-2019-3890 (GCVE-0-2019-3890)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-08-01 13:22 – Updated: 2024-08-04 19:19
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Summary
It was discovered evolution-ews before 3.31.3 does not check the validity of SSL certificates. An attacker could abuse this flaw to get confidential information by tricking the user into connecting to a fake server without the user noticing the difference.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
Assigner
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
The Gnome Project evolution-ews Affected: 3.31.3
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