Medium
Security advisory
Go before 1.14.8 and 1.15.x before 1.15.1 allows XSS because text/html is the default for CGI/FCGI handlers that lack a Content-Type header.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-24553
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Go before 1.14.8 and 1.15.x before 1.15.1 allows XSS because text/html is the default for CGI/FCGI handlers that lack a Content-Type header.
osv:CVE-2020-24553
Complete source record
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