Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-36599

Critical

Published: 18 August 2022

Published
18 August 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0062 70.4th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-36599 is a critical-severity Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output (CWE-116) vulnerability in Omniauth Omniauth. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 29.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

lib/omniauth/failure_endpoint.rb in OmniAuth before 1.9.2 (and before 2.0) does not escape the message_key value.

CWE(s)
CWE-116

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

omniauth
omniauth
2.0.0 · ≤ 1.9.2

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.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-116

Validating that output matches expected content directly mitigates failures to properly encode or escape data for its destination context.

References