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high 7.2

CVE-2020-12713 json

An issue was discovered in CipherMail Community Gateway and Professional/Enterprise Gateway 1.0.1 through 4.7.1-0 and CipherMail Webmail Me…

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-5001

cvss
7.2
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.6%
EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in CipherMail Community Gateway and Professional/Enterprise Gateway 1.0.1 through 4.7.1-0 and CipherMail Webmail Messenger 1.1.1 through 3.1.1-0. Attackers with administrative access to the web interface have multiple options to escalate their privileges to the Unix root account.

Patch / fix

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Exploit prediction

2.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158001/CipherMail-Community-Virtual-Appliance-4.6.2-Code-Execution.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • coresecurity.com https://www.coresecurity.com/core-labs/advisories/ciphermail-multiple-vulnerabilities referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

Sources

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