Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-5847

Unraid ≤ 6.8.0

CISA KEVActive ExploitationEUVD ExploitedPublic PoC
Published
16 March 2020
Modified
17 March 2026
KEV Added
03 November 2021
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.96 99.9th percentile
Risk Priority 97 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2020-5847 is a critical-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Unraid Unraid. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 0.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; CISA has added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

CVE-2020-5847 is a remote code execution vulnerability affecting Unraid versions through 6.8.0. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 and is classified under NVD-CWE-Other.

The flaw enables unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication and achieve arbitrary code execution as root over the network. Public exploit code demonstrating the authentication bypass and code execution has been posted to PacketStorm.

Reference materials from Sysdream and the Unraid forums describe the issue as unauthenticated remote code execution as root in version 6.8.0, with additional technical analysis available at the listed URLs. No specific mitigation details such as patch versions or configuration changes are provided in the source data.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Unraid through 6.8.0 allows Remote Code Execution.

CWE(s)
KEV Date Added
03 November 2021

Related Threats

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Affected Assets

unraid
unraid
≤ 6.8.0

Mitigating Controls

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

References