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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-25022

An attacker can inject code that gets executed by creating an election-event and injecting a payload over an event alias, because the application calls Runtime.getRuntime().exec() without validation.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 1.41%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.41%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in Scytl sVote 2.1. An attacker can inject code that gets executed by creating an election-event and injecting a payload over an event alias, because the application calls Runtime.getRuntime().exec() without validation.

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.41% probability · 71th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-78
Affected
scytl/secure vote
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.