GHSA-869c-j7wc-8jqvCriticalCVSS 9.1
Gin mishandles a wildcard at the end of an origin string
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
parseWildcardRules in Gin-Gonic CORS middleware before 1.6.0 mishandles a wildcard at the end of an origin string, e.g., https://example.community/* is allowed when the intention is that only https://example.com/* should be allowed, and http://localhost.example.com/* is allowed when the intention is that only http://localhost/* should be allowed.
🎯 Affected products2
- go/github.com/gin-gonic/gin:< 1.6.0
- go/github.com/gin-contrib/cors:< 1.6.0
🔗 References (8)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-25211
- https://github.com/gin-contrib/cors/pull/106
- https://github.com/gin-contrib/cors/pull/57
- https://github.com/gin-contrib/cors/commit/27b723a473efd80d5a498fa9f5933c80204c850d
- https://github.com/gin-contrib/cors/compare/v1.5.0...v1.6.0
- https://github.com/gin-contrib/cors/releases/tag/v1.6.0
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00024.html
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-869c-j7wc-8jqv