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critical 9.8

CVE-2020-25565 json

In SapphireIMS 5.0, it is possible to use the hardcoded credential in clients (username: sapphire, password: ims) and gain access to the po…

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-18249

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In SapphireIMS 5.0, it is possible to use the hardcoded credential in clients (username: sapphire, password: ims) and gain access to the portal. Once the access is available, the attacker can inject malicious OS commands on “ping”, “traceroute” and “snmp” functions and execute code on the server.

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Exploit prediction

2.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • vuln.shellcoder.party https://vuln.shellcoder.party/tags/sapphireims/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • vuln.shellcoder.party https://vuln.shellcoder.party/2020/09/19/cve-2020-25565-sapphireims-unprivileged-user-remote-command-execution-on-server/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

References

Sources

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