CVE-2020-16971

FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-16971 is a critical security feature bypass vulnerability affecting the Microsoft Azure SDK for Java. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 9.1, can be exploited remotely without user interaction, potentially leading to high confidentiality and integrity impacts. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, its high FAUCET Risk Score and mention in media coverage indicate its significance.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_sdk_for_java:-:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.4HIGH

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

2.2

Impact Score

5.2

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

3.59%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

88.2%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-26

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0359 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 36,835 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

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 (7)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: com.microsoft.azure:azure-eventhubsFixed in: 3.2.1

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: com.azure:azure-core-amqpFixed in: 1.6.0