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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2020-17506 in the critical feed json

Artica Web Proxy 4.30.00000000 allows remote attacker to bypass privilege detection and gain web backend administrator privileges through S…

published 2020-08-12 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-9454

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
94.0%
EPSS 94.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.8%
public exploits
2
Metasploit, Exploit-DB, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

Artica Web Proxy 4.30.00000000 allows remote attacker to bypass privilege detection and gain web backend administrator privileges through SQL injection of the apikey parameter in fw.login.php.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/linux/http/artica_proxy_auth_bypass_service_cmds_peform_command_injection)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

93.97% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.8% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command

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.