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CVE-2020-29050

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-01-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

SphinxSearch in Sphinx Technologies Sphinx through 3.1.1 allows directory traversal (in conjunction with CVE-2019-14511) because the mysql client can be used for CALL SNIPPETS and load_file operations on a full pathname (e.g., a file in the /etc directory). NOTE: this is unrelated to CMUSphinx.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Sphinxsearch Sphinx: through 3.1.1

References

• https://blog.wirhabenstil.de/2019/08/19/sphinxsearch-0-0-0-09306-cve-2019-14511/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00009.html
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-29050
• https://blog.wirhabenstil.de/2019/08/19/sphinxsearch-0-0-0-09306-cve-2019-14511/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00009.html
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-29050

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