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CVE-2020-24614

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-08-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

Fossil before 2.10.2, 2.11.x before 2.11.2, and 2.12.x before 2.12.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code. An attacker must have check-in privileges on the repository.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 32, 33
• Fossil-Scm Fossil: before 2.10.2; from 2.11.0 before 2.11.2; from 2.12.0 before 2.12.1 — fixed in 2.10.2, 2.11.2, 2.12.1
• openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0-sp1, 15.0-sp2
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1, 15.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Fossil-Scm Fossil 2.10.2, 2.11.2, 2.12.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00065.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/25/1
• https://fossil-scm.org/forum/info/a05ae3ce7760daf6
• https://fossil-scm.org/fossil/vdiff?branch=sec2020-2.12-patch&diff=1&w
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ARYF4YMYXCANXUDS3B3CA4JGUZNUJOJA/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GVZK4K7SFBQRCGCHS76HW2LTSEH2KSUM/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-04
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/20/1
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00065.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/25/1
• https://fossil-scm.org/forum/info/a05ae3ce7760daf6
• https://fossil-scm.org/fossil/vdiff?branch=sec2020-2.12-patch&diff=1&w

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