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CVE-2020-7712Command Injection
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 3.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 12% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
This affects the package json before 10.0.0. It is possible to inject arbritary commands using the parseLookup function.
Timeline
ID reserved
By snyk
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 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 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.1% · top 12% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
json
- affected unspecified – < 10.0.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.webjars.npm:jsonGHSA-3c6g-pvg8-gqw2 (opens in a new tab)
- npmjsonGHSA-3c6g-pvg8-gqw2 (opens in a new tab)
References
References22
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JSON-597481 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-608931 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARS-608932 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/trentm/json/issues/144 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/trentm/json/pull/145 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [zookeeper-dev] 20200913 [jira] [Created] (ZOOKEEPER-3933) owasp failing with json-simple-1.1.1.jar: CVE-2020-10663, CVE-2020-7712 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [zookeeper-issues] 20200913 [jira] [Created] (ZOOKEEPER-3933) owasp failing with json-simple-1.1.1.jar: CVE-2020-10663, CVE-2020-7712 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [zookeeper-issues] 20200913 [jira] [Resolved] (ZOOKEEPER-3933) owasp failing with json-simple-1.1.1.jar: CVE-2020-10663, CVE-2020-7712 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [zookeeper-issues] 20200930 [jira] [Comment Edited] (ZOOKEEPER-3933) owasp failing with json-simple-1.1.1.jar: CVE-2020-10663, CVE-2020-7712 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [zookeeper-issues] 20200930 [jira] [Commented] (ZOOKEEPER-3933) owasp failing with json-simple-1.1.1.jar: CVE-2020-10663, CVE-2020-7712 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [flink-dev] 20200930 [jira] [Created] (FLINK-19471) CVE-2020-7712 is reported for flink-streaming-java_2.11:jar:1.11.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [flink-issues] 20200930 [jira] [Created] (FLINK-19471) CVE-2020-7712 is reported for flink-streaming-java_2.11:jar:1.11.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [zookeeper-issues] 20200930 [jira] [Issue Comment Deleted] (ZOOKEEPER-3933) owasp failing with json-simple-1.1.1.jar: CVE-2020-10663, CVE-2020-7712 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [flink-issues] 20200930 [jira] [Commented] (FLINK-19471) CVE-2020-7712 is reported for flink-streaming-java_2.11:jar:1.11.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [flink-issues] 20200930 [jira] [Updated] (FLINK-19471) CVE-2020-7712 is reported for flink-streaming-java_2.11:jar:1.11.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [flink-issues] 20201014 [jira] [Closed] (FLINK-19471) CVE-2020-7712 is reported for flink-streaming-java_2.11:jar:1.11.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [zookeeper-issues] 20210106 [jira] [Updated] (ZOOKEEPER-3933) owasp failing with json-simple-1.1.1.jar: CVE-2020-10663, CVE-2020-7712 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [zookeeper-issues] 20210404 [jira] [Updated] (ZOOKEEPER-3933) owasp failing with json-simple-1.1.1.jar: CVE-2020-10663, CVE-2020-7712 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [zookeeper-issues] 20210404 [jira] [Assigned] (ZOOKEEPER-3933) owasp failing with json-simple-1.1.1.jar: CVE-2020-10663, CVE-2020-7712 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html (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-2021-0917 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-3c6g-pvg8-gqw2 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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