CVE detail

CVE-2020-13936 — CVE-2020-13936

Published 2021-03-10 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor apache · Product velocity_engine · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

8.8

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.2271

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

98.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

An attacker that is able to modify Velocity templates may execute arbitrary Java code or run arbitrary system commands with the same privileges as the account running the Servlet container. This applies to applications that allow untrusted users to upload/modify velocity templates running Apache Velocity Engine versions up to 2.2.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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