GHSA-gx49-h5r3-q3xj

GHSA-gx49-h5r3-q3xj PUBLISHED CVSS 7.400000095367432 HIGH

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 24, 2022

An issue was discovered in Ruby through 2.6.7, 2.7.x through 2.7.3, and 3.x through 3.0.1. Net::IMAP does not raise an exception when StartTLS fails with an an unknown response, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass the TLS protections by leveraging a network position between the client and the registry to block the StartTLS command, aka a "StartTLS stripping attack."

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

7.400000095367432

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Timeline

May 24, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory

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vulnetix vdb vuln GHSA-gx49-h5r3-q3xj
vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-gx49-h5r3-q3xj

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  "https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/GHSA-gx49-h5r3-q3xj/fixes/registry"

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