CVE-2020-5217

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

1.83% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 78.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

5.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2020-01-23 02:15Z6 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-04 08:22Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2020-01-02

Assigning CNA

GitHub_M

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Medium (CVSS 4.4)

CNA CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

• CWE-95Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection')Variant
• CWE-74Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')Class
• CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')Base

Data version

5.1

Document digest

452a6b8f36338307c8f2aff9d852357253ed89e60f5ab680faa8462114497d10

• github.comhttps://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/security/advisories/GHSA-xq52-rv6w-397cx_refsource_CONFIRM
• github.comhttps://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/issues/418x_refsource_MISC
• github.comhttps://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/pull/421x_refsource_MISC
• github.comhttps://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/commit/936a160e3e9659737a9f9eafce13eea36b5c9fa3x_refsource_MISC