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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-13695

In QuickBox Community Edition through 2.5.5 and Pro Edition through 2.1.8, the local www-data user has sudo privileges to execute grep as root without a password, which allows an attacker to obtain sensitive information via a grep of a /root/*.db or /etc/shadow file.

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1 Nov 2026, 04:40 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-13695

core-osv · Original source

Published 1 Jun 2020, 18:15 UTC

In QuickBox Community Edition through 2.5.5 and Pro Edition through 2.1.8, the local www-data user has sudo privileges to execute grep as root without a password, which allows an attacker to obtain sensitive information via a grep of a /root/*.db or /etc/shadow file.

osv:CVE-2020-13695
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-13695",
  "method": "structured",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:21.555806485Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://s1gh.sh/cve-2020-13448-quickbox-authenticated-rce/"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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  "published_at": "2020-06-01T18:15:11.003+00:00"
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