CVE-2020-12619

Published Aug 20, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 5.9 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-4920 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.
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 12:04 PM
Reserved
May 1, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 20, 2020, 11:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:52 AM