CVE-2020-36879

8.5 highEPSS 0.3%

High (8.5). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Flexsense DiskBoss 11.7.28 allows unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges using any of its services, enabling remote code execution during startup or reboot with escalated privileges. Attackers can exploit the unquoted service path vulnerability by specifying a malicious service name in the 'sc qc' command, allowing them to execute arbitrary system commands.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

8.5 high

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 18% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-428
Published: 2025-12-05
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://www.diskboss.com/
https://www.diskboss.com/downloads.html
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49022
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/flexsense-diskboss-service-unquoted-service-path-vulnerability

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