Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-28438

CriticalPublic PoCRCE

Published: 25 July 2022

Published
25 July 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 0.0051 67.0th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-28438 is a critical-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Deferred-Exec Project Deferred-Exec. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 33.0% 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

This affects all versions of package deferred-exec. The injection point is located in line 42 in lib/deferred-exec.js

CWE(s)
CWE-77

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

deferred-exec project
deferred-exec
all versions

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References