CVSS 3.1
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-13151
Critical (9.8) in aerospike aerospike server. EPSS 87% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Aerospike Community Edition 4.9.0.5 allows for unauthenticated submission and execution of user-defined functions (UDFs), written in Lua, as part of a database query. It attempts to restrict code execution by disabling os.execute() calls, but this is insufficient. Anyone with network access can use a crafted UDF to execute arbitrary OS commands on all nodes of the cluster at the permission level of the user running the Aerospike service.
Severity
- EPSS
- 87% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-78
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- aerospike:aerospike_server
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160106/Aerospike-Database-5.1.0.3-Remote-Command-Execution.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160451/Aerospike-Database-UDF-Lua-Code-Execution.html
- https://b4ny4n.github.io/network-pentest/2020/08/01/cve-2020-13151-poc-aerospike.html
- https://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/configure/security/access-control/index.html#create-users-and-assign-roles
- https://www.aerospike.com/download/server/notes.html#5.1.0.3