CVE-2020-36827 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The XAO::Web module before 1.84 for Perl mishandles < and > characters in JSON output during use of json-embed in Web::Action.

Published: 2024-03-24

Score: 5.4 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2020-24268	The XAO::Web module before 1.84 for Perl mishandles < and > characters in JSON output during use of json-embed in Web::Action.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0008.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/amaltsev/XAO-Web/commit/20dd1d3bc5b811503f5722a16037b60197fe7ef4
https://metacpan.org/dist/XAO-Web/changes

History

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-791
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-03-24T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-03-28T23:56:30.991Z

Reserved: 2024-03-23T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-36827

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T17:37:06.916Z

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2024-03-24T01:15:45.453

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2020-36827

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-791

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