CVE-2020-27225

Summary

CVECVE-2020-27225
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-03-09 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-03-18 18:22:00 UTC
DescriptionIn versions 4.18 and earlier of the Eclipse Platform, the Help Subsystem does not authenticate active help requests to the local help web server, allowing an unauthenticated local attacker to issue active help commands to the associated Eclipse Platform process or Eclipse Rich Client Platform process.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-306

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Eclipse Platform All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
569855 – (CVE-2020-27225) Vulnerability in Eclipse livehelp. CONFIRM bugs.eclipse.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 376108 IBM MQ Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability (6513983)
  • 750289 OpenSUSE Security Update for eclipse (openSUSE-SU-2021:0485-1)

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