{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2020-17496 in the wild since at least 3 Nov 2021.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2020-17496 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available. US federal agencies must fix it by 3 May 2022.","what":"CVE-2020-17496 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Vbulletin Vbulletin, published on 12 Aug 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-17496 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-17496 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Vbulletin Vbulletin, published on 12 Aug 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2020-17496 in the wild since at least 3 Nov 2021.\n\nAffected product: Vbulletin Vbulletin. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-17496/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-17496/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-17496","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-17496/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-17496","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-j77p-6wx9-cjqq"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"vBulletin forum software","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code on vBulletin servers by sending crafted data to a specific AJAX endpoint.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"code_injection"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"vbulletin","vendor":"vbulletin"}],"cvss":{"score":9.8,"severity":"critical","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-74","name":"Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component"}],"description":"vBulletin 5.5.4 through 5.6.2 allows remote command execution via crafted subWidgets data in an ajax/render/widget_tabbedcontainer_tab_panel request. 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