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CVE-2020-37020: SonarQube 8.3.1 - Unquoted Service Path

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-01-29 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-428

Description

SonarQube 8.3.1 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability that allows local attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges by exploiting the service executable path. Attackers can replace the wrapper.exe in the service path with a malicious executable to execute code with highest system privileges during service restart.

Affected products

• SonarQube: 8.3.1

References

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48677
• https://www.sonarqube.org
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sonarqube-unquoted-service-path

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