Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-27467

HighPublic PoC

Published: 24 February 2022

Published
24 February 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.8731 99.5th percentile
Risk Priority 67 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-27467 is a high-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Processwire Processwire. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 0.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A Directory Traversal vulnerability exits in Processwire CMS before 2.7.1 via the download parameter to index.php.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

processwire
processwire
2.0.0 — 2.7.1

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.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References