THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-13144
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2020-13144

Open Edx Platform vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
11.0%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Studio in Open edX Ironwood 2.5, when CodeJail is not used, allows a user to go to the "Create New course>New section>New subsection>New unit>Add new component>Problem button>Advanced tab>Custom Python evaluated code" screen, edit the problem, and execute Python code. This leads to arbitrary code execution.
Affected vendor
Edx
Affected product
Open Edx Platform
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2020-05-18

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 11.0% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Edx Open Edx Platform is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-13144.
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