gin-gonic/gin · Security
Gin mishandles a wildcard at the end of an origin string
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-869c-j7wc-8jqv
- CVE ID
- CVE-2019-25211
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 9.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 9.3 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
parseWildcardRules in Gin-Gonic CORS middleware before 1.6.0 mishandles a wildcard at the end of an origin string, e.g., https://example.community/* is allowed when the intention is that only https://example.com/* should be allowed, and http://localhost.example.com/* is allowed when the intention is that only http://localhost/* should be allowed.
CWEs
- CWE-346 · Origin Validation Error
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-25211 ↗
- https://github.com/gin-contrib/cors/pull/106 ↗
- https://github.com/gin-contrib/cors/pull/57 ↗
- https://github.com/gin-contrib/cors/commit/27b723a473efd80d5a498fa9f5933c80204c850d ↗
- https://github.com/gin-contrib/cors/compare/v1.5.0...v1.6.0 ↗
- https://github.com/gin-contrib/cors/releases/tag/v1.6.0 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00024.html ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-869c-j7wc-8jqv ↗