CVE-2018-20744 (GCVE-0-2018-20744)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-28 08:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 12:12
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Summary
The Olivier Poitrey Go CORS handler through 1.3.0 actively converts a wildcard CORS policy into reflecting an arbitrary Origin header value, which is incompatible with the CORS security design, and could lead to CORS misconfiguration security problems.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2019-01-28 00:00
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