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CVE-2020-24356

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-24356 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting cloudflared versions prior to 2020.8.1 on Windows systems. An attacker could exploit this by manipulating cloudflared's configuration file search path to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2020.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cloudflare:cloudflared:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.4MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.1
Impact Score
4.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 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 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/cloudflare/cloudflaredFixed in: 0.0.0-20200820025921-9323844ea773

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-hgwp-4vp4-qmm2high

Local Privilege Escalation in cloudflared

May 24, 2021

References

github.com / cloudflare/cloudflared/security/advisories/GHSA-hgwp-4vp4-qmm2
Third Party Advisory