CVE-2020-36774 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

plugins/gtk+/glade-gtk-box.c in GNOME Glade before 3.38.1 and 3.39.x before 3.40.0 mishandles widget rebuilding for GladeGtkBox, leading to a denial of service (application crash).

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00026.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Gnome	Glade

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:gnome:glade::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:gnome:glade::::::::

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Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glade/-/commit/7acdd3c6f6934f47b8974ebc2190a59ea5d2ed17
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glade/-/issues/479
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36774
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36774

History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00018}`	epss `{'score': 0.00026}`

Wed, 07 May 2025 12:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Gnome Gnome glade
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:gnome:glade::::::::
Vendors & Products		Gnome Gnome glade

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-664
Metrics	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}`	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-02-19T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-09-04T14:43:46.338Z

Reserved: 2024-02-19T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-36774

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T17:37:07.214Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-02-19T02:15:47.690

Modified: 2025-05-07T12:26:41.657

Link: CVE-2020-36774

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2024-02-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-36774 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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