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CVE-2020-27688

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-11-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-522

Description

RVToolsPasswordEncryption.exe in RVTools 4.0.6 allows users to encrypt passwords to be used in the configuration files. This encryption used a static IV and key, and thus using the Decrypt() method from VISKD.cs from the RVTools.exe executable allows for decrypting the encrypted passwords. The accounts used in the configuration files have access to vSphere instances.

Affected products

• Robware Rvtools: 4.0.6

References

• https://github.com/matthiasmaes/CVE-2020-27688
• https://www.robware.net/rvtools/
• https://github.com/matthiasmaes/CVE-2020-27688
• https://www.robware.net/rvtools/

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