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CVE-2018-20851

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-20851 describes a critical vulnerability in Helpy versions prior to 2.2.0, where an authenticated agent can escalate privileges to administrative levels. This flaw carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a low-complexity attack that can be executed remotely with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion has been observed, the potential for a complete system compromise remains high.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:helpy.io:helpy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0153 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 17,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / helpyio/helpy/commit/a26dd854deb17e36a605f91a6f51d128e98d3818
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / helpyio/helpy/compare/d64e97a...592bc60
PatchThird Party Advisory