CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-5242

8.8 HIGH Published 2020-02-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-02-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.7 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-284, CWE-863

Description

openHAB before 2.5.2 allow a remote attacker to use REST calls to install the EXEC binding or EXEC transformation service and execute arbitrary commands on the system with the privileges of the user running openHAB. Starting with version 2.5.2 all commands need to be whitelisted in a local file which cannot be changed via REST calls.

Affected configurations

• openhab openhab (< 2.5.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness
  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness

References