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medium 4.9

CVE-2020-29159 json

An issue was discovered in Zammad before 3.5.1.

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-21539

cvss
4.9
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 60%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Zammad before 3.5.1. The default signup Role (for newly created Users) can be a privileged Role, if configured by an admin. This behvaior was unintended.

Patch / fix

  • zammad zammad 3.5.1

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Exploit prediction

0.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 60% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

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Sources

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