Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-36762

Medium

Published: 18 July 2023

Published
18 July 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0041 61.5th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-36762 is a medium-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Ons Ras Collection Instrument. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 38.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability was found in ONS Digital RAS Collection Instrument up to 2.0.27 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function jobs of the file .github/workflows/comment.yml. The manipulation of the argument $COMMENT_BODY leads to os command injection.…

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Upgrading to version 2.0.28 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is dcaad2540f7d50c512ff2e031d3778dd9337db2b. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-234248.

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

ons
ras collection instrument
≤ 2.0.28

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.

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