Security advisory

{
  "id": "9f22e42adf0b47b668bc6d601937d870b99aeadf98e65be546813e68a19898f4",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-26124",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-26124",
    "summary": "openmediavault before 4.1.36 and 5.x before 5.5.12 allows authenticated PHP code injection attacks, via the sortfield POST parameter of rpc.php, because json_encode_safe is not used in config/databasebackend.inc. Successful exploitation allows arbitrary command execution on the underlying operating system as root.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-26124",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-26124",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-26124"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/openmediavault/openmediavault",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "ebb51bbf5a39f4955eab0073bf87f2a31926d85d"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "source": "REFERENCES"
              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-26124.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-19T02:30:25.497502589Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://www.openmediavault.org/?p=2797",
        "https://github.com/openmediavault/openmediavault/commit/ebb51bbf5a39f4955eab0073bf87f2a31926d85d"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:openmediavault:openmediavault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE",
            "vendor_product": "openmediavault:openmediavault",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "fixed": "4.1.36"
              },
              {
                "introduced": "5.0.0"
              },
              {
                "fixed": "5.5.12"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "source": "DESCRIPTION",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "fixed": "4.1.36"
              },
              {
                "introduced": "5.x"
              },
              {
                "fixed": "5.5.12"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-26124",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 372260,
  "published_at": "2020-10-02T09:15:13.9+00:00"
}