THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-13159
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2020-13159

Artica Proxy vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
9.3%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Artica Proxy before 4.30.000000 Community Edition allows OS command injection via the Netbios name, Server domain name, dhclient_mac, Hostname, or Alias field. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2020-10818.
Affected vendor
Articatech
Affected product
Artica Proxy
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-78 — OS Command Injection
Published
2020-06-22

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 9.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-13159

  • Confirm whether Articatech Artica Proxy is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-13159.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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