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CVE-2020-9352

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 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: yes
• Published: 2020-02-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-611

Description

An issue was discovered in SmartClient 12.0. Unauthenticated exploitation of blind XXE can occur in the downloadWSDL feature by sending a POST request to /tools/developerConsoleOperations.jsp with a valid payload in the _transaction parameter. NOTE: the documentation states "These tools are, by default, available to anyone ... so they should only be deployed into a trusted environment. Alternately, the tools can easily be restricted to administrators or end users by protecting the tools path with normal authentication and authorization mechanisms on the web server."

Affected products

• Smartclient: 12.0

References

• https://blog.certimetergroup.com/it/articolo/security/smartclient-v12-xml-external-entity--cve-2020-9352
• https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Feb/18
• https://www-demos.smartclient.com/smartclient-12.0/isomorphic/system/reference/?id=group..toolsDeployment
• https://blog.certimetergroup.com/it/articolo/security/smartclient-v12-xml-external-entity--cve-2020-9352
• https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Feb/18
• https://www-demos.smartclient.com/smartclient-12.0/isomorphic/system/reference/?id=group..toolsDeployment

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