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CVE-2020-12608

45
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-12608 describes an insecure file permissions vulnerability in the SolarWinds MSP Patch Management Engine (PME) Cache Service, affecting versions prior to 1.1.15. An attacker can exploit this by modifying the CacheService.xml file to change the SISServerURL parameter, leading to arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this local vulnerability requires user interaction but can result in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the CISA KEV catalog, public exploit code exists, and it has a high FAUCET Risk Score of 91/100, indicating significant potential risk despite limited community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.1.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:managed_service_provider_patch_management_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
22.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-48448 · May 11, 2020
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2240 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 11,617 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/157591/SolarWinds-MSP-PME-Cache-Service-Insecure-File-Permissions-Code-Execution.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2020/May/23
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
github.com / jensregel/Advisories/tree/master/CVE-2020-12608
ExploitThird Party Advisory