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CVE-2020-12714 (GCVE-0-2020-12714)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-06-11 01:46 – Updated: 2024-08-04 12:04
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in CipherMail Community Gateway Virtual Appliances and Professional/Enterprise Gateway Virtual Appliances versions 1.0.1 through 4.7.1-0 and CipherMail Webmail Messenger Virtual Appliances 1.1.1 through 3.1.1-0. A Diffie-Hellman parameter of insufficient size could allow man-in-the-middle compromise of communications between CipherMail products and external SMTP clients.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
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