Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-12775

CriticalRCE

Published: 01 March 2022

Published
01 March 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0404 88.8th percentile
Risk Priority 22 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-12775 is a critical-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Moica Hicos. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 11.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Hicos citizen certificate client-side component does not filter special characters for command parameters in specific web URLs. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to perform command injection attack to execute arbitrary system command, disrupt system or terminate service.

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

moica
hicos
≤ 1.3.4.12 · ≤ 3.0.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-78

Platform-independent apps typically execute inside a managed runtime or sandbox that restricts direct OS command execution, reducing the ability to exploit OS command injection.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-78

Validates inputs to block special elements that would alter OS command execution.

References