CVE-2020-24916

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Elevated

Also known asEUVD-2020-17621 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-962f-382j-8f7x (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 17%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

CGI implementation in Yaws web server versions 1.81 to 2.0.7 is vulnerable to OS command injection.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
60
EG Risk 60/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
17%
EPSS %ILE
97th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
17% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-12). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

September 9, 2020

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (6)

Auto-updated Oct 4, 2026
Patch available.
Web pageMentions a patch (unverified)

[SECURITY] [DLA 2384-1] yaws security update

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00022.html
Web page

GitHub - vulnbe/poc-yaws-cgi-shell-injection: Yaws web server OS command injection POC · GitHub

https://github.com/vulnbe/poc-yaws-cgi-shell-injection
Web page

Commits · erlyaws/yaws · GitHub

https://github.com/erlyaws/yaws/commits/master
Web page

[SECURITY] [DSA 4773-1] yaws security update

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4773
Web page

XXE and OS command injections in Yaws - vuln.be

https://vuln.be/post/yaws-xxe-and-shell-injections/

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntuyaws-yapp (2.0.4+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1) @ bionic2026-11-12ubuntu
ubuntuyaws-yapp (2.0.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm1) @ xenial2026-11-12ubuntu

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(6 across 6 ecosystems)
Debian:10(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
yaws2.0.6+dfsg-1
  • every version up to 2.0.6+dfsg-1+deb10u1: fixed in 2.0.6+dfsg-1+deb10u1
—
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
yaws—
  • every version up to 2.0.8+dfsg-1: fixed in 2.0.8+dfsg-1
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
yaws—
  • every version up to 2.0.8+dfsg-1: fixed in 2.0.8+dfsg-1
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
yaws—
  • every version up to 2.0.8+dfsg-1: fixed in 2.0.8+dfsg-1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
yaws—
  • every version up to 2.0.8+dfsg-1: fixed in 2.0.8+dfsg-1
—
Debian:9(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
yaws2.0.4+dfsg-1
  • every version up to 2.0.4+dfsg-1+deb9u1: fixed in 2.0.4+dfsg-1+deb9u1
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(2)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 71× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 267 rows on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 167 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-13 16:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  2. 2026-11-12 17:22 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  3. 2026-11-12 17:22 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-12 17:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-11-12 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  6. 2026-11-11 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  7. 2026-11-11 15:16 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  8. 2026-11-11 15:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-11-10 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  10. 2026-11-10 13:09 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  11. 2026-11-10 13:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-11-09 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  13. 2026-11-09 11:00 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  14. 2026-11-09 11:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-11-08 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  16. 2026-11-08 08:54 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  17. 2026-11-08 08:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  18. 2026-11-07 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  19. 2026-11-07 06:48 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  20. 2026-11-07 06:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  21. 2026-11-06 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  22. 2026-11-06 04:41 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  23. 2026-11-06 04:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  24. 2026-11-05 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  25. 2026-11-05 02:35 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
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  1. 2026-11-05 02:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  2. 2026-11-04 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  3. 2026-11-04 00:29 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  4. 2026-11-04 00:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-11-03 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  6. 2026-11-03 10:55 UTCOSV refresh
  7. 2026-11-02 22:23 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  8. 2026-11-02 22:23 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-11-02 22:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-11-01 20:06 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  11. 2026-11-01 20:06 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-11-01 20:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-10-31 17:58 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  14. 2026-10-31 17:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-10-31 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  16. 2026-10-30 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  17. 2026-10-30 15:52 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  18. 2026-10-30 15:52 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-30 15:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  20. 2026-10-29 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  21. 2026-10-29 13:46 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  22. 2026-10-29 13:46 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-29 13:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  24. 2026-10-28 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  25. 2026-10-28 11:36 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  26. 2026-10-28 11:36 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-10-28 11:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  28. 2026-10-27 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  29. 2026-10-27 09:11 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  30. 2026-10-27 09:11 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-10-27 09:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  32. 2026-10-26 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  33. 2026-10-26 06:18 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-10-26 06:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  35. 2026-10-25 18:46 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  36. 2026-10-25 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  37. 2026-10-25 04:13 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  38. 2026-10-25 04:13 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-10-25 04:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  40. 2026-10-24 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  41. 2026-10-24 02:06 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  42. 2026-10-24 02:06 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-10-24 02:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  44. 2026-10-23 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  45. 2026-10-23 00:00 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  46. 2026-10-23 00:00 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-10-23 00:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  48. 2026-10-22 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  49. 2026-10-21 21:53 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  50. 2026-10-21 21:53 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-10-21 21:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  52. 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  53. 2026-10-20 19:47 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  54. 2026-10-20 19:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  55. 2026-10-20 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  56. 2026-10-19 17:40 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  57. 2026-10-19 17:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  58. 2026-10-19 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  59. 2026-10-18 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  60. 2026-10-18 15:32 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-10-18 15:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  62. 2026-10-18 09:28 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  63. 2026-10-17 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  64. 2026-10-17 13:26 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  65. 2026-10-17 13:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  66. 2026-10-16 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  67. 2026-10-16 11:20 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  68. 2026-10-16 11:20 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-10-16 11:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  70. 2026-10-15 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  71. 2026-10-15 09:13 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  72. 2026-10-15 09:13 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-10-15 09:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-962f-382j-8f7x · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  74. 2026-10-14 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 17% · 97th percentile
  75. 2026-10-14 05:28 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2020-24916?
CVE-2020-24916 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 9, 2020. CGI implementation in Yaws web server versions 1.81 to 2.0.7 is vulnerable to OS command injection.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2020-24916 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2020-24916 was published on September 9, 2020. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2020-24916 actively exploited?
CVE-2020-24916 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 17% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (97th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2020-24916?
CVE-2020-24916 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2020-24916?
A fix for CVE-2020-24916 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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