THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-1693
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2020-1693

Spacewalk vulnerability

CVSS
8.6
EPSS
4.3%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Redhat
Affected product
Spacewalk
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-611 — XML External Entity (XXE) Reference
Published
2020-02-17

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, low impact to integrity, low impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-1693

  • Confirm whether Redhat Spacewalk is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-1693.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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