CVE-2020-14000

CRITICAL

MIT Scratch-vm - Insecure Deserialization

Title source: rule

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0660
EPSS Percentile 91.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-502
Status published

Affected Products (2)

mit/scratch-vm < 0.2.0-prerelease.20200714185213
npm/scratch-vm < 0.2.0-prerelease.20200714185213npm

Timeline

Published Jul 16, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026