CVE-2020-8920Overoptimization leads to private information leak in Gerrit
- 3.5LowCVSS base score
- 0.37%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 68% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An information leak vulnerability exists in Gerrit versions prior to 2.14.22, 2.15.21, 2.16.25, 3.0.15, 3.1.10, 3.2.5 where an overoptimization with the FilteredRepository wrapper skips the verification of access on All-Users repositories, allowing an attacker to get read access to all users' personal information associated with their accounts.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Google
- 10 months later
· 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GoogleCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Low3.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.37% · top 68% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavencom.google.gerrit:gerrit-plugin-apiGHSA-g5q2-cxgq-h2rw (opens in a new tab)
References
References7
- https://www.gerritcodereview.com/2.15.html#21521 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.gerritcodereview.com/2.16.html#21625 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.gerritcodereview.com/3.0.html#3014 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.gerritcodereview.com/3.1.html#3110 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.gerritcodereview.com/3.2.html#325 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit/+/45071d6977932bca5a1427c8abad24710fed2e33 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.gerritcodereview.com/2.14.html#21422 (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-2022-3896 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-g5q2-cxgq-h2rw (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-8920)Record last updated .