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CVE-2020-28469

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-28469 is a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability (CWE-400) affecting the 'glob-parent' package versions prior to 5.1.2, impacting products like gulpjs and Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Policy. The flaw stems from an inefficient regular expression used to validate path separators, which can be exploited remotely without authentication or user interaction. While the CVSS score is 7.5, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gulpjs:glob-parent:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
1.14.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:communications_cloud_native_core_policy:1.14.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0458 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (39)

bitdefenderpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: ['8.2.12', '9.0.6', '9.1.1']
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github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
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npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: glob-parentFixed in: 5.1.2
oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-nodejs12-nodejs-nodemon-0:2.0.3-5.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: rh-nodejs12-nodejs-nodemon-0:2.0.3-5.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.4Fixed in: ovirt-engine-ui-extensions-0:1.2.7-1.el8ev
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.4Fixed in: ovirt-web-ui-0:1.7.2-1.el8ev
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: nodejs:14-8050020211213115342.c5368500
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update SupportFixed in: nodejs:14-8040020211213111158.522a0ee4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: nodejs:16-8050020211206113934.c5368500
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: nodejs-nodemon-0:2.0.19-1.el9_0
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8Fixed in: openshift4/ose-console:v4.8.0-202107010336.p0.git.188a490.assembly.stream
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-nodejs14-nodejs-nodemon-0:2.0.3-5.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-nodejs12-nodejs-0:12.22.5-1.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: rh-nodejs14-nodejs-nodemon-0:2.0.3-5.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: rh-nodejs12-nodejs-0:12.22.5-1.el7
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/search-ui-rhel8
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: nodejs:10/nodejs-nodemon
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: nodejs:12/nodejs-nodemon
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-grafana
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-prometheus-rhel9
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-thanos-rhel8
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 2Fixed in: rhosdt/jaeger-all-in-one-rhel8
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-nodejs10-nodejs-nodemon
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/application-ui-rhel8
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/console-api-rhel8
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/console-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/console-header-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0Fixed in: servicemesh-grafana
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0Fixed in: servicemesh-prometheus
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/grc-ui-api-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/grc-ui-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/kui-web-terminal-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/mcm-topology-api-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/mcm-topology-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/search-api-rhel8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Quay 3Fixed in: quay/quay-rhel8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4Fixed in: cockpit-ovirt

Vendor Advisories (3)

bitdefenderllm-bitdefender-2250a01bd7a7224eHIGH

August 2023 Third Party Package Updates in Splunk Enterprise

Aug 30, 2023
npmGHSA-ww39-953v-wcq6high

glob-parent vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service in enclosure regex

Jun 7, 2021
redhatCVE-2020-28469Moderate

nodejs-glob-parent: Regular expression denial of service

Jan 12, 2021

References

github.com / gulpjs/glob-parent/blob/6ce8d11f2f1ed8e80a9526b1dc8cf3aa71f43474/index.js%23L9
Broken Link
github.com / gulpjs/glob-parent/pull/36
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / gulpjs/glob-parent/releases/tag/v5.1.2
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBES128-1059093
ExploitThird Party Advisory
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1059092
ExploitThird Party Advisory
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JS-GLOBPARENT-1016905
ExploitThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
PatchThird Party Advisory