CVE-2020-27511
HighPublic PoC
Published: 21 June 2021
Published
21 June 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.0119
79.2th percentile
Risk Priority
16
60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS
Summary
CVE-2020-27511 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Prototypejs Prototype. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 20.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2020-20021
Vulnerability details
An issue was discovered in the stripTags and unescapeHTML components in Prototype 1.7.3 where an attacker can cause a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) through stripping crafted HTML tags.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
prototypejs
prototype
1.7.3
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.