CVE-2020-7070
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v2025.03.14There is a 22.9% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
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In PHP versions 7.2.x below 7.2.34, 7.3.x below 7.3.23 and 7.4.x below 7.4.11, when PHP is processing incoming HTTP cookie values, the cookie names are url-decoded. This may lead to cookies with prefixes like __Host confused with cookies that decode to such prefix, thus leading to an attacker being able to forge cookie which is supposed to be secure. See also CVE-2020-8184 for more information.
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Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: May 24, 2022, Modified: May 24, 2022