What is CVE-2020-11944?

CVE-2020-11944 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bitcoin-Abe Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2020-04-20.

How severe is CVE-2020-11944?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Bitcoin-Abe Project

CVE-2020-11944

Abe (aka bitcoin-abe) through 0.7.2, and 0.8pre, allows XSS in __call__ in abe.py because the PATH_INFO environment variable is mishandled during a PageNotFound exception.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.012 (65.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Bitcoin-abe_project Bitcoin-abe — versions 0.8
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Broken Link)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-11944?: CVE-2020-11944 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bitcoin-Abe Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2020-04-20.
How severe is CVE-2020-11944?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.