High
Security advisory
Due to improper validation of caller input, validation is silently disabled if the provided expected token is malformed, causing any user supplied token to be considered valid.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-36564
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Due to improper validation of caller input, validation is silently disabled if the provided expected token is malformed, causing any user supplied token to be considered valid.
osv:CVE-2020-36564
Complete source record
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