High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager in versions 3.21.1 and 3.22.0. It is possible for a user with appropriate privileges to create, modify, and execute scripting tasks without use of the UI or API. NOTE: in 3.22.0, scripting is disabled by default (making this not exploitable).
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-11753
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager in versions 3.21.1 and 3.22.0. It is possible for a user with appropriate privileges to create, modify, and execute scripting tasks without use of the UI or API. NOTE: in 3.22.0, scripting is disabled by default (making this not exploitable).
osv:CVE-2020-11753
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-11753",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
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"title": "CVE-2020-11753",
"summary": "An issue was discovered in Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager in versions 3.21.1 and 3.22.0. It is possible for a user with appropriate privileges to create, modify, and execute scripting tasks without use of the UI or API. NOTE: in 3.22.0, scripting is disabled by default (making this not exploitable).",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-11753",
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"severity": "high",
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"aliases": [
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}
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"affected": [
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"type": "GIT",
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},
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},
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"versions": [
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}
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],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:29.206645871Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/284.html",
"https://support.sonatype.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046233714"
],
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},
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}
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]
}
},
"related_cves": [
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"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 432261,
"published_at": "2020-04-20T19:15:11.557+00:00"
}