CVE-2020-36564 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Due to improper validation of caller input, validation is silently disabled if the provided expected token is malformed, causing any user supplied token to be considered valid.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00097.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Nosurf Project	Nosurf

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:nosurf_project:nosurf:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-7521	Due to improper validation of caller input, validation is silently disabled if the provided expected token is malformed, causing any user supplied token to be considered valid.
Github GHSA	GHSA-5x84-q523-vvwr	nosurf vulnerable to improper input validation

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/justinas/nosurf/commit/4d86df7a4affa1fa50ab39fb09aac56c3ce9c314
https://github.com/justinas/nosurf/pull/60
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2020-0049

History

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Go

Published: 2022-12-27T21:13:31.590Z

Updated: 2025-04-11T16:26:19.344Z

Reserved: 2022-07-29T18:39:05.265Z

Link: CVE-2020-36564

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T17:30:08.463Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-27T22:15:11.673

Modified: 2025-04-11T17:15:34.950

Link: CVE-2020-36564

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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