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CVE-2020-8186

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-8186 is a critical command injection vulnerability affecting the devcert module, specifically when untrusted input is passed to the certificateFor function. This flaw allows for remote code execution with a CVSS score of 9.8, indicating a severe impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion has been observed, its high severity and ease of exploitation (network-based, low complexity, no user interaction or privileges required) warrant immediate attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:devcert_project:devcert:1.1.0:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.77%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0277 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 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, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 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)

npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: devcertFixed in: 1.1.2

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-4228-7qvx-f4rqhigh

Injection and Command Injection in devcert

May 18, 2021

References

hackerone.com / reports/863544
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory