CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-26886
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-03-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-665
Description
Softaculous before 5.5.7 is affected by a code execution vulnerability because of External Initialization of Trusted Variables or Data Stores. This leads to privilege escalation on the local host.
Affected configurations
• softaculous softaculous (< 5.5.7)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness
References
- https://vulnerable.af Third Party Advisory
- https://vulnerable.af/posts/cve-2020-26886/ Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.softaculous.com/board/index.php?tid=17086&title=Softaculous_5.5.7_Launched Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://vulnerable.af Third Party Advisory
- https://vulnerable.af/posts/cve-2020-26886/ Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.softaculous.com/board/index.php?tid=17086&title=Softaculous_5.5.7_Launched Release Notes, Vendor Advisory