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CVE-2020-26283

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-26283 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting go-ipfs versions prior to 0.8.0. It stems from a failure to escape control characters in console output, which can obscure user input and lead to unintended, potentially malicious actions. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low complexity, posing a significant risk of high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:protocol:go-ipfs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.8MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.3
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0150 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 17,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/ipfs/go-ipfsFixed in: 0.8.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-r4gv-vj59-cccmmedium

Control character injection in console output in github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs

Jun 23, 2021

References

github.com / ipfs/go-ipfs/commit/fb0a9acd2d8288bd1028c3219a420de62a09683a
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/7831
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / ipfs/go-ipfs/security/advisories/GHSA-r4gv-vj59-cccm
Third Party Advisory