RHSA-2020:1080 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: evolution security and bug fix update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · April 1, 2020
Updated · June 27, 2026
Topic
An update for evolution, evolution-data-server, evolution-ews, and atk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
Evolution is a GNOME application that provides integrated email, calendar, contact management, and communications functionality.
The evolution-data-server packages provide a unified back end for applications which interact with contacts, tasks and calendar information. Evolution Data Server was originally developed as a back end for the Evolution information management application, but is now used by various other applications.
Security Fix(es):
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evolution: specially crafted email leading to OpenPGP signatures being spoofed for arbitrary messages (CVE-2018-15587)
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evolution-ews: all certificate errors ignored if error is ignored during initial account setup in gnome-online-accounts (CVE-2019-3890)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.