TLS Certificate Validation Flaw in Elastic APM Agent for Ruby: Man-in-the-Middle Attack Vulnerability

TLS Certificate Validation Flaw in Elastic APM Agent for Ruby: Man-in-the-Middle Attack Vulnerability

CVE-2019-7615 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

A TLS certificate validation flaw was found in Elastic APM agent for Ruby versions before 2.9.0. When specifying a trusted server CA certificate via the 'server_ca_cert' setting, the Ruby agent would not properly verify the certificate returned by the APM server. This could result in a man in the middle style attack against the Ruby agent.

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