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CVE-2020-20269
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2021-01-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Description
A specially crafted Markdown document could cause the execution of malicious JavaScript code in Caret Editor before 4.0.0-rc22.
Affected products
- careteditor caret: through 3.4.6; 4.0.0-beta0, 4.0.0-beta1, 4.0.0-beta2, 4.0.0-beta3, 4.0.0-beta4, 4.0.0-beta5 (+18)
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161072/Caret-Editor-4.0.0-rc21-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Jan/59
- https://caret.io
- https://github.com/careteditor/issues/issues/841
- https://github.com/careteditor/releases-beta/releases/tag/4.0.0-rc22
- https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Jan/59
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161072/Caret-Editor-4.0.0-rc21-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Jan/59
- https://caret.io
- https://github.com/careteditor/issues/issues/841
- https://github.com/careteditor/releases-beta/releases/tag/4.0.0-rc22
- https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Jan/59
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