CVE-2020-12618 (GCVE-0-2020-12618)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-08-20 22:48 – Updated: 2024-08-04 12:04
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Summary
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.
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