CVE-2020-5296Arbitrary File Deletion vulnerability in OctoberCMS
- 6.2MediumCVSS base score
- 1.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 27% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In OctoberCMS (october/october composer package) versions from 1.0.319 and before 1.0.466, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability to delete arbitrary local files of an October CMS server. The vulnerability is only exploitable by an authenticated backend user with the `cms.manage_assets` permission. Issue has been patched in Build 466 (v1.0.466).
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 27% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.2.
Affected products
- affected >= 1.0.319, < 1.0.466
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistoctober/cmsGHSA-jv6v-fvvx-4932 (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://github.com/octobercms/october/commit/2b8939cc8b5b6fe81e093fe2c9f883ada4e3c8cc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/octobercms/october/security/advisories/GHSA-jv6v-fvvx-4932 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158730/October-CMS-Build-465-XSS-File-Read-File-Deletion-CSV-Injection.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20200804 October CMS <= Build 465 Multiple Vulnerabilities - Arbitrary File Read (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_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-2020-0496 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-jv6v-fvvx-4932 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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