MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2020-5811

Umbraco Cms vulnerability

CVSS
6.5
EPSS
9.4%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
An authenticated path traversal vulnerability exists during package installation in Umbraco CMS <= 8.9.1 or current, which could result in arbitrary files being written outside of the site home and expected paths when installing an Umbraco package.
Affected vendor
Umbraco
Affected product
Umbraco Cms
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2020-12-30

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 integrity.

Its EPSS score of 9.4% 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-2020-5811

  • Confirm whether Umbraco Umbraco Cms is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-5811.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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