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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-1961

Vulnerability to Server-Side Template Injection on Mail templates for Apache Syncope 2.0.X releases prior to 2.0.15, 2.1.X releases prior to 2.1.6, enabling attackers to inject arbitrary JEXL expressions, leading to Remote Code Execution (RCE) was discovered.

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1 Nov 2026, 04:30 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-1961

core-osv · Original source

Published 4 May 2020, 13:15 UTC

Vulnerability to Server-Side Template Injection on Mail templates for Apache Syncope 2.0.X releases prior to 2.0.15, 2.1.X releases prior to 2.1.6, enabling attackers to inject arbitrary JEXL expressions, leading to Remote Code Execution (RCE) was discovered.

osv:CVE-2020-1961
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-1961",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2020-1961",
    "summary": "Vulnerability to Server-Side Template Injection on Mail templates for Apache Syncope 2.0.X releases prior to 2.0.15, 2.1.X releases prior to 2.1.6, enabling attackers to inject arbitrary JEXL expressions, leading to Remote Code Execution (RCE) was discovered.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-1961",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
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        "GHSA-4w4p-xwrr-9crh"
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          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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          "versions": [
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            "syncope-2.1.5",
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            "syncope-2.1.4",
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            "syncope-2.1.3",
            "syncope-2.0.11",
            "syncope-2.1.2",
            "syncope-2.0.10",
            "syncope-2.1.1",
            "syncope-2.1.0",
            "syncope-2.0.9",
            "syncope-2.0.8",
            "syncope-2.0.7",
            "syncope-2.0.6",
            "syncope-2.0.5",
            "syncope-2.0.4",
            "syncope-2.0.3",
            "syncope-2.0.2",
            "syncope-2.0.1",
            "syncope-2.0.0"
          ],
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:19.261122361Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [],
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    },
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      }
    ],
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 429976,
  "published_at": "2020-05-04T13:15:14.033+00:00"
}