CVE-2020-12619 (GCVE-0-2020-12619)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-08-20 22:44
Modified
2024-08-04 12:04
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
MailMate before 1.11 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.
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