{"id":"CVE-2020-36911","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-36911","generatedAt":"2026-10-31T06:58:53.527Z","title":"Covenant 0.1.3 - 0.5 contains a remote code execution vulnerability that allows attackers to craft malicious JWT tokens with administrative privileges.","description":"Covenant 0.1.3 - 0.5 contains a remote code execution vulnerability that allows attackers to craft malicious JWT tokens with administrative privileges. Attackers can generate forged tokens with admin roles and upload custom DLL payloads to execute arbitrary commands on the target system.","published":"2026-01-13T23:15:48.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:16:29.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"disclosure@vulncheck.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":9.3,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-798"],"affected":["cobbr/covenant"],"epss":{"score":0.12334,"percentile":0.9619,"date":"2026-10-30","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 12.3%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://cobbr.io/Covenant.html","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/Zeop-CyberSec/covenant_rce/blob/master/covenant_jwt_rce.rb","tags":["Product"],"source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/cobbr/Covenant","tags":["Product"],"source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20201013165001/https://twitter.com/cobbr_io/status/1316058367161401344","tags":["Issue Tracking"],"source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20201101052547/https://blog.null.farm/hunting-the-hunters","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/51141","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/covenant-remote-code-execution-rce","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/Zeop-CyberSec/covenant_rce/blob/master/covenant_jwt_rce.rb","tags":["Product"],"source":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20201101052547/https://blog.null.farm/hunting-the-hunters","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36911","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."}