CVSS 3.1
8.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-5242
High (8.8) in openhab openhab. EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 80% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-863, CWE-284
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- openhab:openhab
References
- https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/commit/4c4cb664f2e2c3866aadf117d22fb54aa8dd0031
- https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/security/advisories/GHSA-w698-693g-23hv
- https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/commit/4c4cb664f2e2c3866aadf117d22fb54aa8dd0031
- https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/security/advisories/GHSA-w698-693g-23hv