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Medium severity4.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 20, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-12618

CVE-2020-12618

Description

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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Affected products

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  • Emclient/Emclient3 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:emclient:em_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:emclient:em_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <7.2.33412.0
    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: <7.2.33412.0

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