CVE-2020-36320

mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.020 · 80 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.96% (80th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

5 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Unsafe validation RegEx in EmailValidator class in com.vaadin:vaadin-server versions 7.0.0 through 7.7.21 (Vaadin 7.0.0 through 7.7.21) allows attackers to cause uncontrolled resource consumption by submitting malicious email addresses.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · security@vaadin.comexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-400USprimaryCWE-400US

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Vaadin Vaadin7.0.0 → *enisa_euvdEU
Vaadin vaadin-server7.0.0 → *enisa_euvdEU
vaadin vaadin7.0.0 → 7.7.22nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vaadin:vaadin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven com.vaadin:vaadin-bom7.0.0.beta1 → 7.7.22osvUSpkg:maven/com.vaadin/vaadin-bom
Maven com.vaadin:vaadin-server7.0.0.beta1 → 7.7.22osvUSpkg:maven/com.vaadin/vaadin-server

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-42j4-733x-5vcfRegular expression denial of service (ReDoS) in EmailValidator class in Vaadin 72021-04-19ghsa · osvUS
Unsafe validation RegEx in `EmailValidator` class in `com.vaadin:vaadin-server` versions 7.0.0 through 7.7.21 (Vaadin 7.0.0 through 7.7.21) allows attackers to cause uncontrolled resource consumption by submitting malicious email addresses. - https://vaadin.com/security/cve-2020-36320

also known as (3)

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-04-23modified 2026-06-17

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references (10)

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