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CVE-2020-9488

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Last updated

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9488

Severity

3.7

Low

CVSS V3

Description

Improper validation of certificate with host mismatch in Apache Log4j SMTP appender. This could allow an SMTPS connection to be intercepted by a man-in-the-middle attack which could leak any log messages sent through that appender. Fixed in Apache Log4j 2.12.3 and 2.13.1

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