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CVE-2020-8910Auth Bypass in Google's Closure-Library
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.54%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 54% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A URL parsing issue in goog.uri of the Google Closure Library versions up to and including v20200224 allows an attacker to send malicious URLs to be parsed by the library and return the wrong authority. Mitigation: update your library to version v20200315.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Google
- 43 days later
· 43 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GoogleCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.54% · top 54% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
- affected v20200224 – ≤ v20200224
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmgoogle-closure-libraryGHSA-vh5w-fg69-rc8m (opens in a new tab)
References
References2
- https://github.com/google/closure-library/commit/294fc00b01d248419d8f8de37580adf2a0024fc9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/google/closure-library/releases/tag/v20200315 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2021-1203 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-vh5w-fg69-rc8m (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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