THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-8868
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2020-8868

Foglight Evolve vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
9.5%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Quest Foglight Evolve 9.0.0. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the __service__ user account. The product contains a hard-coded password for this account. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the context of SYSTEM. Was ZDI-CAN-9553.
Affected vendor
Quest
Affected product
Foglight Evolve
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-798 — Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Published
2020-03-23

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 9.5% 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-2020-8868

  • Confirm whether Quest Foglight Evolve is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-8868.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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