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CVE-2020-7938

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-7938 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting plone.restapi in Plone versions 5.2.0 through 5.2.1, allowing users with specific privileges to elevate their access to the highest level. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), this vulnerability can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.2.0, <= 5.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0146 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 17,844 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)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: plone.restapiFixed in: 6.2.1
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: PloneFixed in: 5.2.2

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-cjg3-q24h-9qwfhigh

Plone Privilege Escallation

May 24, 2022
redhatCVE-2020-7938Important

plone: privilege escalation in plone.restapi

Jan 23, 2020

References

plone.org / security/hotfix/20200121
Vendor Advisory
plone.org / security/hotfix/20200121/privilege-escalation-when-plone-restapi-is-installed
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2020/01/22/1
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2020/01/24/1
Third Party Advisory