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CVE-2020-5232

HIGH
Published 2020-01-30T23:55:13
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CVSS Score

V3.1
8.7
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.006
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.6% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.684
Higher than 68.4% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE

Description

A user who owns an ENS domain can set a trapdoor, allowing them to transfer ownership to another user, and later regain ownership without the new owners consent or awareness. A new ENS deployment is being rolled out that fixes this vulnerability in the ENS registry.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

ensdomains

@ensdomains/ens

Affected Versions:

< 0.4.0

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH

Malicious takeover of previously owned ENS names

GHSA-8f9f-pc5v-9r5h

Advisory Details

### Impact A user who owns an ENS domain can set a "trapdoor", allowing them to transfer ownership to another user, and later regain ownership without the new owner's consent or awareness. ### Patches A new ENS deployment is being rolled out that fixes this vulnerability in the ENS registry. The registry is newly deployed at [0x00000000000C2E074eC69A0dFb2997BA6C7d2e1e](https://etherscan.io/address/0x00000000000C2E074eC69A0dFb2997BA6C7d2e1e). ### Workarounds Do not accept transfers of ENS domains from other users on the old registrar.

Affected Packages

npm @ensdomains/ens
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <0.4.0

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

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

References

WEB https://github.com/ensdomains/ens/security/advisories/GHSA-8f9f-pc5v-9r5h
ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5232
WEB https://github.com/ensdomains/ens/commit/36e10e71fcddcade88646821e0a57cc6c19e1ecf

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: January 30, 2020, Modified: September 21, 2022

References

https://github.com/ensdomains/ens/security/advisories/GHSA-8f9f-pc5v-9r5h
https://github.com/ensdomains/ens/commit/36e10e71fcddcade88646821e0a57cc6c19e1ecf
Published: 2020-01-30T23:55:13
Last Modified: 2024-08-04T08:22:09.005Z
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