CVE-2021-32066

HIGH

Ruby < 2.6.7, 2.7.x < 2.7.3, 3.x < 3.0.1 - TLS Protection Bypass via StartTLS Stripping

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Ruby through 2.6.7, 2.7.x through 2.7.3, and 3.x through 3.0.1. Net::IMAP does not raise an exception when StartTLS fails with an an unknown response, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass the TLS protections by leveraging a network position between the client and the registry to block the StartTLS command, aka a "StartTLS stripping attack."

Scores

CVSS v3 7.4
EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 22.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-755
Status published
Products (2)
oracle/jd_edwards_enterpriseone_tools < 9.2.6.1
ruby-lang/ruby 2.6.0 - 2.6.7
Published Aug 01, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026