THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-36911
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2020-36911

Covenant vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
10.4%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Cobbr
Affected product
Covenant
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-798 — Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Published
2026-01-13

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 10.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-36911

  • Confirm whether Cobbr Covenant is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-36911.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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