CVE-2020-14000

CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: July 16, 2020 at 02:41 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:54 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorScratch Vm

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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%

Description

MIT Lifelong Kindergarten Scratch scratch-vm before 0.2.0-prerelease.20200714185213 loads extension URLs from untrusted project.json files with certain _ characters, resulting in remote code execution because the URL's content is treated as a script and is executed as a worker. The responsible code is getExtensionIdForOpcode in serialization/sb3.js. The use of _ is incompatible with a protection mechanism in older versions, in which URLs were split and consequently deserialization attacks were prevented. NOTE: the scratch.mit.edu hosted service is not affected because of the lack of worker scripts.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 0.2.0-prerelease.20200714185213
Affected range stops below 0.2.0-prerelease.20200714185213, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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References (2)

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-502

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