CVE-2018-20744

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-20744
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-01-28 08:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-02-20 18:59:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-346

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Go Cors Project Go Cors All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity18/sec18-chen.pdf MISC www.usenix.org Third Party Advisory
CORS security: reflecting any origin header value when configured to * is dangerous · Issue #55 · rs/cors · GitHub MISC github.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Go CORS Handler CVE-2018-20744 Security Bypass Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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