CVE-2020-13695

HIGH

QuickBox Community Edition < 2.5.5 and Pro Edition < 2.1.8 - Privilege Escalation via Sudo Grep Execution

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In QuickBox Community Edition through 2.5.5 and Pro Edition through 2.1.8, the local www-data user has sudo privileges to execute grep as root without a password, which allows an attacker to obtain sensitive information via a grep of a /root/*.db or /etc/shadow file.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://s1gh.sh/cve-2020-13448-quickbox-authenticated-rce/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.2
EPSS 0.0140
EPSS Percentile 69.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-269 CWE-306
Status published
Products (2)
quickbox/quickbox < 2.1.8
quickbox/quickbox < 2.5.5
Published Jun 01, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026