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CVE-2020-27225

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-27225 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Eclipse Platform versions 4.18 and earlier, where the Help Subsystem fails to authenticate active help requests. This allows an unauthenticated local attacker to issue commands to the associated Eclipse Platform or Rich Client Platform process. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a low attack complexity and requiring local access. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 17,061 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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 (15)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Developer ToolsFixed in: rh-eclipse-1:4.19-4.el7_9
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Product: Red Hat Developer ToolsFixed in: rh-eclipse-apache-sshd-1:2.6.0-1.2.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Developer ToolsFixed in: rh-eclipse-batik-0:1.14-1.1.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Developer ToolsFixed in: rh-eclipse-eclipse-1:4.19-1.3.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Developer ToolsFixed in: rh-eclipse-eclipse-egit-0:5.11.0-1.1.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Developer ToolsFixed in: rh-eclipse-eclipse-emf-1:2.25.0-1.1.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Developer ToolsFixed in: rh-eclipse-eclipse-jgit-0:5.11.0-1.1.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Developer ToolsFixed in: rh-eclipse-jakarta-annotations-0:1.3.5-7.1.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Developer ToolsFixed in: rh-eclipse-jetty-0:9.4.38-1.1.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Developer ToolsFixed in: rh-eclipse-jgit-0:5.11.0-1.1.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Developer ToolsFixed in: rh-eclipse-objectweb-asm-0:9.1-1.1.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Developer ToolsFixed in: rh-eclipse-takari-polyglot-0:0.4.6-1.1.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Developer ToolsFixed in: rh-eclipse-tycho-0:2.2.0-4.1.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Developer ToolsFixed in: rh-eclipse-xmlgraphics-commons-0:2.6-1.1.el7_9
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redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: eclipse

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-27225Moderate

eclipse: Help Subsystem does not authenticate active help requests

Mar 9, 2021

References

bugs.eclipse.org / bugs/show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory