CVE-2020-35572

Exp

Adminer through 4.7.8 allows XSS via the history parameter to the default URI.

Published: 2021-02-09 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2020-35572 is rated High Exploit Risk (69.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.32%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2020-35572

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2020-35572

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 2026-05-13 3.53% 3.32% -0.21%
2 2026-04-08 3.35% 3.53% +0.19%
3 2026-03-04 3.35%

Full EPSS history (35 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2020-35572

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.1 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
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.
2.8 2.7 [email protected]
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/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:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2020-35572

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2020-35572

GHSA-9pgx-gcph-mpqr · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: composer — vrana/adminer via XSS in the history parameter in SQL command

OS Trackers for CVE-2020-35572

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2020-35572 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (adminer), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-35572
ubuntu medium CVE-2020-35572 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (adminer), 15 status rows across 15 suites (bionic, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 10, ignored 2, released 2, DNE 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-35572

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2020-35572

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
adminer adminer <= 4.7.8 cpe:2.3:a:adminer:adminer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2020-35572

URL Tags
https://sourceforge.net/p/adminer/bugs-and-features/775/ Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://sourceforge.net/p/adminer/news/ Release Notes Third Party Advisory
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