CVE-2020-1696

A flaw was found in the all pki-core 10.x.x versions, where Token Processing Service (TPS) where it did not properly sanitize Profile IDs, enabling a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability when the profile ID is printed. An attacker with sufficient permissions could trick an authenticated victim into executing a specially crafted Javascript code.

Published: 2020-03-20 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2020-1696 is rated Low Risk (36.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.76%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2020-1696

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.37% 0.76% +0.40%
2 2025-12-14 0.30% 0.37% +0.07%
3 2025-10-19 — 0.30% —

Full EPSS history (14 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2020-1696

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.6 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.1 2.5 [email protected]
5.4 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.3 2.7 [email protected]
3.5 2.0 LOW
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 6.8 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2020-1696

OS Trackers for CVE-2020-1696

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2020-1696 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (dogtag-pki), 1 status rows across 1 suites (bullseye): open 1. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-1696
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1696
ubuntu low CVE-2020-1696 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dogtag-pki), 17 status rows across 17 suites (bionic, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 7, DNE 5, needed 2, ignored 1, needs-triage 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-1696

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2020-1696

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
redhat certificate_system 9.0 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:certificate_system:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat certificate_system 10.0 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:certificate_system:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
dogtagpki dogtagpki >= 10.0, <= 10.8.3 cpe:2.3:a:dogtagpki:dogtagpki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2020-1696

URL Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1696 Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
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