What is CVE-2020-15767?

CVE-2020-15767 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gradle Enterprise, classified under Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2020-09-18.

How severe is CVE-2020-15767?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Gradle Enterprise

CVE-2020-15767

An issue was discovered in Gradle Enterprise before 2020.2.5. The cookie used to convey the CSRF prevention token is not annotated with the “secure” attribute, which allows an attacker with the ability to MITM plain HTTP requests to obtain it, if the user mistakenly uses a HTTP instead of HTTPS address to access the server. This cookie value could then be used to perform CSRF.

Published 2020-09-18 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (43.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 43rd percentile — 43.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Gradle Enterprise

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-311 — Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

References

github.com/gradle/gradle/security/advisories (Third Party Advisory)
security.gradle.com/advisory/CVE-2020-15767 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-15767?: CVE-2020-15767 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gradle Enterprise, classified under Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2020-09-18.
How severe is CVE-2020-15767?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.