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CVE-2020-17505

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-17505 is a critical command injection vulnerability affecting Artica Web Proxy version 4.30.000000, allowing an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a severe impact with full confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise possible over a network with low attack complexity. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, exploit modules are publicly available in Metasploit and Nuclei, and its EPSS score of 0.896590 suggests a high likelihood of exploitation. Despite the high risk, there is no significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.30.000000CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:articatech:web_proxy:4.30.000000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
82.16%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Artica proxy 4.30.000000 Auth Bypass service-cmds-peform Command Injection · Aug 9, 2020
Nuclei: CVE-2020-17505 · Aug 20, 2020
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.8216 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 17,844 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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/159267/Artica-Proxy-4.30.000000-Authentication-Bypass-Command-Injection.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
blog.max0x4141.com / post/artica_proxy
ExploitThird Party Advisory