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CVE-2018-20744
The Olivier Poitrey Go CORS handler through 1.3.0 actively converts a wildcard CORS policy into reflecting an arbitrary Origin header…
Medium5.9EPSS 0.72%
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- mitre
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.72% · top 46% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/gofiber/fiber/v2GHSA-927h-x4qj-r242 (opens in a new tab)
- Gogithub.com/rs/corsGHSA-927h-x4qj-r242 (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- 106834 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://github.com/rs/cors/issues/55 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity18/sec18-chen.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-927h-x4qj-r242 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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