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CVE-2020-14000

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-14000 is a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting MIT Lifelong Kindergarten Scratch scratch-vm versions prior to 0.2.0-prerelease.20200714185213. It arises from the improper loading of extension URLs from untrusted project.json files, allowing malicious content to be executed as a worker script. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness among security researchers.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.2.0-prerelease.20200714185213CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:scratch-vm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.83%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0283 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: scratch-vmFixed in: 0.2.0-prerelease.20200714185213

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-vc9j-fhvv-8vrfcritical

Remote Code Execution in scratch-vm

Jul 27, 2020

References

github.com / LLK/scratch-vm/pull/2476
Third Party Advisory
scratch.mit.edu / discuss/topic/422904
Vendor Advisory