- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 4.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
This affects the package express-fileupload before 1.1.8. If the parseNested option is enabled, sending a corrupt HTTP request can lead to denial of service or arbitrary code execution.
Timeline
ID reserved
By snyk
- 6 months later
· 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| snykCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| 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)
- 4.8% · top 8.0% 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: High 7.5.
Affected products
express-fileupload
- affected unspecified – < 1.1.8
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmexpress-fileuploadGHSA-9wcg-jrwf-8gg7 (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-EXPRESSFILEUPLOAD-595969 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/richardgirges/express-fileupload/issues/236 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200821-0003/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2020-0608 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-9wcg-jrwf-8gg7 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-7699)Record last updated .