CVE-2020-27225

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2021-03-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-306

Description

In versions 4.18 and earlier of the Eclipse Platform, the Help Subsystem does not authenticate active help requests to the local help web server, allowing an unauthenticated local attacker to issue active help commands to the associated Eclipse Platform process or Eclipse Rich Client Platform process.

Affected products

The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Platform: through 4.18

References

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=569855
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=569855

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