Security advisory

{
  "id": "bb9c4b304258435f6f84da19928de0b367020d5fa85a95fd419ad262eafb7e32",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-20301",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-20301",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in Steve Pallen Coherence before 0.5.2 that is similar to a Mass Assignment vulnerability. In particular, \"registration\" endpoints (e.g., creating, editing, updating) allow users to update any coherence_fields data. For example, users can automatically confirm their accounts by sending the confirmed_at parameter with their registration request.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-20301",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-20301",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-20301",
        "GHSA-mrq8-53r4-3j5m"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/smpallen99/coherence",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "4c2261ea5a12604bde816fbf542a5c82ce9c8072"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:coherence_project:coherence:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "0.5.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v0.5.1",
            "v0.5.0",
            "v0.4.0",
            "v0.3.0",
            "v0.2.0",
            "v0.1.3",
            "v0.1.2",
            "v0.1.1",
            "v0.1.0",
            "v0.0.3",
            "v0.0.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20301.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:06.580432390Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/smpallen99/coherence/issues/270"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-20301",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 381289,
  "published_at": "2018-12-20T09:29:00.243+00:00"
}