{"id":"CVE-2020-36829","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-36829","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:43:05.804Z","title":"The Mojolicious module before 8.65 for Perl is vulnerable to secure_compare timing attacks that allow an attacker to guess the length of a secret string.","description":"The Mojolicious module before 8.65 for Perl is vulnerable to secure_compare timing attacks that allow an attacker to guess the length of a secret string. Only versions after 1.74 are affected.","published":"2024-04-08T00:15:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:16:17.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":[],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00511,"percentile":0.43332,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.51%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/mojolicious/mojo/issues/1599","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/mojolicious/mojo/pull/1601","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00025.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/mojolicious/mojo/issues/1599","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/mojolicious/mojo/pull/1601","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00025.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36829","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}