CVE-2020-15098

Missing Required Cryptographic Step Leading to Sensitive Information Disclosure in TYPO3 CMS

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: July 29, 2020 at 04:15 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:56 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorTYPO3

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

In TYPO3 CMS greater than or equal to 9.0.0 and less than 9.5.20, and greater than or equal to 10.0.0 and less than 10.4.6, it has been discovered that an internal verification mechanism can be used to generate arbitrary checksums. This allows to inject arbitrary data having a valid cryptographic message authentication code (HMAC-SHA1) and can lead to various attack chains including potential privilege escalation, insecure deserialization & remote code execution. The overall severity of this vulnerability is high based on mentioned attack chains and the requirement of having a valid backend user session (authenticated). This has been patched in versions 9.5.20 and 10.4.6.

Affected

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

95%
v < 9.5.2010.0.0 ≤ v < 10.4.69.0.0 ≤ v < 9.5.20>= 10.0.0, 10.4.6
Affected range stops below 10.4.6, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 9.5.20, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

CVSS

8.8HIGHGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20CWE-200CWE-325CWE-502CWE-327

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