Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-36321

Medium

Published: 23 April 2021

Published
23 April 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0055 68.4th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-36321 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Vaadin Flow. Its CVSS base score is 5.9 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 31.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper URL validation in development mode handler in com.vaadin:flow-server versions 2.0.0 through 2.4.1 (Vaadin 14.0.0 through 14.4.2), and 3.0 prior to 5.0 (Vaadin 15 prior to 18) allows attacker to request arbitrary files stored outside of intended frontend resources folder.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

vaadin
flow
2.0.0 — 2.4.2 · 3.0.0 — 5.0.0
vaadin
vaadin
14.0.0 — 14.4.3 · 15.0.0 — 18.0.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References