CVE-2020-26886 (GCVE-0-2020-26886)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-18 19:22 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:03
VLAI
Summary
Softaculous before 5.5.7 is affected by a code execution vulnerability because of External Initialization of Trusted Variables or Data Stores. This leads to privilege escalation on the local host.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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