THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-17514
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2020-17514

Fineract vulnerability

CVSS
7.4
EPSS
3.4%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
Apache Fineract prior to 1.5.0 disables HTTPS hostname verification in ProcessorHelper in the configureClient method. Under typical deployments, a man in the middle attack could be successful.
Affected vendor
Apache
Affected product
Fineract
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Published
2021-05-27

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-17514

  • Confirm whether Apache Fineract is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-17514.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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