Vulnerability · Published Jan 22, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-20269
Critical 9.8
In plain English
A critical-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 4.9% (higher than 92% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)4.9%top 7.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
A specially crafted Markdown document could cause the execution of malicious JavaScript code in Caret Editor before 4.0.0-rc22.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/careteditor/issues/issues/841 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/careteditor/releases-beta/releases/tag/4.0.0-rc22 x_refsource_MISC
- https://caret.io x_refsource_MISC
- https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Jan/59 x_refsource_MISC
- 20210122 CVE-2020-20269 - Caret Editor v4.0.0-rc21 Remote Code Execution mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161072/Caret-Editor-4.0.0-rc21-Remote-Code-Execution.html x_refsource_MISC