CVE-2020-13167

9.8 criticalEPSS 95%

Critical (9.8) in netsweeper netsweeper. EPSS 95% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Netsweeper through 6.4.3 allows unauthenticated remote code execution because webadmin/tools/unixlogin.php (with certain Referer headers) launches a command line with client-supplied parameters, and allows injection of shell metacharacters.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

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

EPSS: 95% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-78
Published: 2020-05-19
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

netsweeper:netsweeper

References

https://ssd-disclosure.com/ssd-advisory-netsweeper-preauth-rce/
https://ssd-disclosure.com/ssd-advisory-netsweeper-preauth-rce/

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