Security advisory

{
  "id": "66f174742eb61731b8597179044a1b3be8f9ab6ed9dd74fd31ef53b31783dcaf",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-12078",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-12078",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in Open-AudIT 3.3.1. There is shell metacharacter injection via attributes to an open-audit/configuration/ URI. An attacker can exploit this by adding an excluded IP address to the global discovery settings (internally called exclude_ip). This exclude_ip value is passed to the exec function in the discoveries_helper.php file (inside the all_ip_list function) without being filtered, which means that the attacker can provide a payload instead of a valid IP address.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-12078",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-12078",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-12078"
      ],
      "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/opmantek/open-audit",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "e30ca22e1f0b7e261e131fc95d7883bf5afd1816"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "e30ca22e1f0b7e261e131fc95d7883bf5afd1816"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "6ffc7f9032c55eaa1c37cf5e070809b7211c7e9a"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:opmantek:open-audit:3.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "3.3.1"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.3.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "6ffc7f9032c55eaa1c37cf5e070809b7211c7e9a"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "3.3.1",
            "Open-AudIT_3.3.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-12078.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:05.133489945Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/Opmantek/open-audit/commit/6ffc7f9032c55eaa1c37cf5e070809b7211c7e9a",
        "https://gist.github.com/mhaskar/dca62d0f0facc13f6364b8ed88d5a7fd",
        "https://shells.systems/open-audit-v3-3-1-remote-command-execution-cve-2020-12078/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-12078",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 382467,
  "published_at": "2020-04-28T14:15:14.203+00:00"
}