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CVE-2020-7646
curlrequest through 1.0.1 allows reading any file by populating the file parameter with user input.
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 1.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 20% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
curlrequest through 1.0.1 allows reading any file by populating the file parameter with user input.
Timeline
ID reserved
By snyk
- 4 months later
· 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
curlrequest
- affected All versions including 1.0.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmcurlrequestGHSA-m8xj-5v73-3hh8 (opens in a new tab)
References
References2
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-CURLREQUEST-568274 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/node-js-libs/curlrequest/blob/master/index.js#L239%2C (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-2020-0431 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-m8xj-5v73-3hh8 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-7646)Record last updated .