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CVE-2018-20227

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-20227 is a directory traversal vulnerability affecting Eclipse RDF4J versions up to 2.4.2, allowing an attacker to write arbitrary files outside the intended directory via a specially crafted ZIP archive containing "../" in an entry. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a severe impact on integrity (I:H) with a low attack complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction required (UI:N). While no active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion has been observed, the potential for high integrity impact necessitates patching.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:rdf4j:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.82%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0182 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.eclipse.rdf4j:rdf4jFixed in: 2.5.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-x3cr-x949-h5jvhigh

RDF4J vulnerable to zip slip

May 14, 2022

References

github.com / eclipse/rdf4j/issues/1210
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / eclipse/rdf4j/pull/1211/commits/df15a4d7a8f2789c043b27c9eafe1b30316cfa79
PatchThird Party Advisory