CVE-2020-27197 is a critical Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability affecting TAXII libtaxii through version 1.1.117, including its use in EclecticIQ OpenTAXII through 0.2.0. This flaw allows an attacker to initiate arbitrary network requests from the server by injecting an "http://" substring into the parse method, even when network access is explicitly disabled for the XML parser. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eclecticiq:opentaxii:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 1.1.117CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:libtaxii_project:libtaxii:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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.