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CVE-2020-15180

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-15180 is a critical command injection vulnerability in the mysql-wsrep component of MariaDB, affecting versions before 10.1.47, 10.2.34, 10.3.25, 10.4.15, and 10.5.6, as well as related products like Debian and Percona. This flaw allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on Galera cluster nodes due to a lack of input sanitization in the wsrep_sst_method parameter. With a CVSS score of 9.0 (CRITICAL), it presents a high risk to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, despite requiring high attack complexity. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 10.1.0, < 10.1.47CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 10.2.0, < 10.2.34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 10.3.0, < 10.3.25CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 10.4.0, < 10.4.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 10.5.0, < 10.5.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.0CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0554 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 201 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.4 Reddit, 1.2 Bluesky, 0.8 Mastodon, and 2.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.8 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (12)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: mariadb:10.3-8030020201203011231.229f0a1c
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: mariadb:10.3-8000020201221114409.f8e95b4e
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update SupportFixed in: mariadb:10.3-8010020201214133427.c27ad7f8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: mariadb:10.3-8020020201214133105.4cda2c84
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton)Fixed in: mariadb-galera-1:5.5.62-2.el7ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-mariadb103-galera-0:25.3.31-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-mariadb103-mariadb-3:10.3.27-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUSFixed in: rh-mariadb103-galera-0:25.3.31-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUSFixed in: rh-mariadb103-mariadb-3:10.3.27-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: rh-mariadb103-galera-0:25.3.31-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: rh-mariadb103-mariadb-3:10.3.27-1.el7
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redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-mariadb102-mariadb

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-15180Important

mariadb: Insufficient SST method name check leading to code injection in mysql-wsrep

Oct 6, 2020

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00021.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202011-14
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4776
Third Party Advisory
percona.com / blog/2020/10/30/cve-2020-15180-affects-percona-xtradb-cluster
PatchThird Party Advisory