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CVE-2020-15272

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-15272 is a critical command injection vulnerability (CWE-78) affecting the git-tag-annotation-action GitHub Action before version 1.0.1. An attacker with control over the ‘tag’ input can execute arbitrary shell commands, leading to high confidentiality and integrity impacts. With a CVSS score of 9.6, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low privileges and no user interaction. 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
< 1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:git-tag-annotation-action_project:git-tag-annotation-action:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.7HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.3
Impact Score
5.8
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0118 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 1,128 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 1.0 Bluesky, 0.5 Mastodon, and 1.6 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)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / ericcornelissen/git-tag-annotation-action/commit/9f30756375cc4b1b6c66f274fc9c591fa901455a
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / ericcornelissen/git-tag-annotation-action/releases/tag/v1.0.1
Third Party Advisory
github.com / ericcornelissen/git-tag-annotation-action/security/advisories/GHSA-hgx2-4pp9-357g
Third Party Advisory