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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2020-11107 in the critical feed json

An issue was discovered in XAMPP before 7.2.29, 7.3.x before 7.3.16 , and 7.4.x before 7.4.4 on Windows.

published 2020-04-02 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-3465

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
22.5%
EPSS 22.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

An issue was discovered in XAMPP before 7.2.29, 7.3.x before 7.3.16 , and 7.4.x before 7.4.4 on Windows. An unprivileged user can change a .exe configuration in xampp-contol.ini for all users (including admins) to enable arbitrary command execution.

Patch / fix

  • apachefriends xampp 7.2.29, 7.3.16, 7.4.4

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-50337)

Exploit prediction

22.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-50337 XAMPP 7.4.3 - Local Privilege Escalation local, 2021-09-27
  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164292/XAMPP-7.4.3-Privilege-Escalation.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.