CVE-2020-37020
SonarQube 8.3.1 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability that allows local attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges by exploiting the service executable path. Attackers can replace the wrapper.exe in the service path with a malicious executable to execute code with highest system privileges during service restart.
- Affected products
- Sonarqube
- CVSS 4.0
- 8.5 HIGH
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGH
- EPSS
- 0.1% (2th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-428
- NVD status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-01-29
CVE-2020-37020 at NVD
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