CVE-2020-1693 HIGH

CVE-2020-1693

Vendor Red Hat
Product spacewalk
Weakness CWE-611 · XXE
Published February 17, 2020
Last update August 4, 2024

CVSS base score

8.6/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

A flaw was found in Spacewalk up to version 2.9 where it was vulnerable to XML internal entity attacks via the /rpc/api endpoint. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this flaw to retrieve the content of certain files and trigger a denial of service, or in certain circumstances, execute arbitrary code on the Spacewalk server.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 17, 2020 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated