CVE-2020-1977Expedition Migration Tool: Insufficient Cross Site Request Forgery protection.
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 0.51%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 56% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Insufficient Cross-Site Request Forgery (XSRF) protection on Expedition Migration Tool allows remote unauthenticated attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators and to perform actions on the Expedition Migration Tool. This issue affects Expedition Migration Tool 1.1.51 and earlier versions.
Timeline
ID reserved
By palo_alto
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| palo_altoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.51% · top 56% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
Palo Alto Networks · Expedition
- affected 1.1 – ≤ 1.1.51
What to do
Solution: This issue is fixed in Expedition Migration Tool 1.1.52 and later versions.
Workaround: To prevent the chance of malicious websites making forged requests to Expedition Migration Tool, you should access the tool exclusively from a web browser and log out after each use.
References
References2
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1977 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-11 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-12767 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-1977)Record last updated .