Security Advisory

CVE-2020-12618

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-08-20 22:48:25
Last updated 2024-08-04 12:04:21
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

eM Client before 7.2.33412.0 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.