CVE-2020-6754

highpriority · attend · 72EPSS 0.948 · 100 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

94.8% (100th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

dotCMS before 5.2.4 is vulnerable to directory traversal, leading to incorrect access control. It allows an attacker to read or execute files under $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/ROOT/assets (which should be a protected directory). Additionally, attackers can upload temporary files (e.g., .jsp files) into /webapps/ROOT/assets/tmp_upload, which can lead to remote command execution (with the permissions of the user running the dotCMS application).

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimaryCWE-434USprimary

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
dotcms dotcms< 5.2.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:dotcms:dotcms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-02-05modified 2026-06-17

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references (7)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://dotcms.com/security/SI-54 cnnvd
https://github.com/dotCMS/core/issues/17796 cnnvd
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6754 cnnvd
https://dotcms.com/security/SI-54 enisa_euvd
https://github.com/dotCMS/core/issues/17796 enisa_euvd
https://dotcms.com/security/SI-54ExploitMitigationVendor Advisorynvd
https://github.com/dotCMS/core/issues/17796ExploitThird Party Advisorynvd

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