Vulnerability · Published Feb 19, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-24392
Medium 5.9
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the ruby-twitter-stream package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 59% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)5.9Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 40.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
In voloko twitter-stream 0.1.10, missing TLS hostname validation allows an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack against users of the library (because eventmachine is misused).
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | ruby-twitter-stream | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2020-24392 |
| RubyGems | twitter-stream | no fix listed | GHSA-p6p8-q4pj-f74m |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | ruby-twitter-stream | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2020-24392 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | ruby-twitter-stream | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2020-24392 |
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/voloko/twitter-stream x_refsource_MISC
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-097-voloko-twitter-stream x_refsource_MISC