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CVE-2020-8172

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-06-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-295

Description

TLS session reuse can lead to host certificate verification bypass in node version < 12.18.0 and < 14.4.0.

Affected products

• Node.js: from 12.0.0 before 12.18.0; from 14.0.0 before 14.4.0 — fixed in 12.18.0, 14.4.0
• Oracle Banking Extensibility Workbench: 14.3.0, 14.4.0
• Oracle Blockchain Platform: before 21.1.2 — fixed in 21.1.2
• Oracle Corporation GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 19.3.2, 20.1.0
• Oracle Corporation MySQL Cluster: through 7.3.30; from 7.4.0 through 7.4.29; from 7.5.0 through 7.5.19; from 7.6.0 through 7.6.15; from 8.0.0 through 8.0.21

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Node.js 12.18.0, 14.4.0; Oracle Blockchain Platform 21.1.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://hackerone.com/reports/811502
• https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/june-2020-security-releases/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-07
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200625-0002/
• https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
• https://hackerone.com/reports/811502
• https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/june-2020-security-releases/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-07

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