Vulnerability · Published Mar 18, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-26886
High 7.8
In plain English
A high-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 0.6% (higher than 50% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 49.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
Softaculous before 5.5.7 is affected by a code execution vulnerability because of External Initialization of Trusted Variables or Data Stores. This leads to privilege escalation on the local host.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.softaculous.com/board/index.php?tid=17086&title=Softaculous_5.5.7_Launched x_refsource_MISC
- https://vulnerable.af x_refsource_MISC
- https://vulnerable.af/posts/cve-2020-26886/ x_refsource_MISC