CVE-2020-24393: Improper Certificate Validation

February 19, 2021 (updated March 1, 2021)

TweetStream uses the library eventmachine in an insecure way that does not have TLS hostname validation. This allows an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24393

Code Behaviors & Features

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