CVE-2020-15400

CakePHP before 4.0.6 mishandles CSRF token generation. This might be remotely exploitable in conjunction with XSS.

Published: 2020-06-30 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2020-15400 is rated Low Risk (25.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.08%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2020-15400

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-02-28 0.17% 0.08% -0.08%
2 2025-03-30 0.26% 0.17% -0.09%
3 2025-03-29 — 0.26% —

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2020-15400

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.8 1.4 [email protected]
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2020-15400

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2020-15400

GHSA-j33j-fg2g-mcv2 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: composer — Cross-Site Request Forgery in CakePHP

OS Trackers for CVE-2020-15400

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2020-15400 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (cakephp), 1 status rows across 1 suites (bullseye): open 1. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-15400
ubuntu medium CVE-2020-15400 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (cakephp), 17 status rows across 17 suites (bionic, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 8, ignored 5, needs-triage 4. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-15400

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2020-15400

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
cakefoundation cakephp < 4.0.6 cpe:2.3:a:cakefoundation:cakephp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2020-15400

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