CVE-2020-36911 (GCVE-0-2020-36911)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-13 22:51 – Updated: 2026-01-14 19:22
VLAI?
Title
Covenant 0.5 - Remote Code Execution (RCE)
Summary
Covenant 0.1.3 - 0.5 contains a remote code execution vulnerability that allows attackers to craft malicious JWT tokens with administrative privileges. Attackers can generate forged tokens with admin roles and upload custom DLL payloads to execute arbitrary commands on the target system.
Severity ?
9.3 (Critical)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-798 - Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Cobbr Covenant Affected: 0.1.3 , ≤ 0.5 (semver)
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Credits
coastal
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