Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-36604

High

Published: 23 September 2022

Published
23 September 2022
Modified
27 May 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0105 77.9th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-36604 is a high-severity Prototype Pollution (CWE-1321) vulnerability in Hapijs Hoek. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 22.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

hoek before 8.5.1 and 9.x before 9.0.3 allows prototype poisoning in the clone function.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

hapijs
hoek
≤ 8.5.1 · 9.0 — 9.0.3

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References