CVE-2020-12641

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-06-22), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: cisa_kev, epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 84%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: cisa kev · ssvc active · epss top5pct · epss high · public exploitExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

rcube_image.php in Roundcube Webmail before 1.4.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in a configuration setting for im_convert_path or im_identify_path.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
99
EG Risk 99/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity98% × 45%
Exploitation100% × 40%
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.
EPSS PROB
84%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

CISA SSVCAttend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.

A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

May 4, 2020

Last Modified

November 4, 2025

Advisory Details (6)

Auto-updated Oct 9, 2026
🔬 Proof of concept available. Patch available. Sources: github_commit, github_release.
github_commit

commit fcfb099477f3 (roundcube/roundcubemail)

Fix landed in roundcube/roundcubemail commit fcfb099477f3 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/fcfb099477f353373c34c8a65c9035b06b364db3
generic🟡 PoC Available

Disclosures/CVE-2020-12641-Command Injection-Roundcube at master · DrunkenShells/Disclosures · GitHub

https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2020-12641-Command%20Injection-Roundcube
generic

Roundcube: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202007-41) — Gentoo security

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-41
generic

Security updates 1.4.4, 1.3.11 and 1.2.10 released

https://roundcube.net/news/2020/04/29/security-updates-1.4.4-1.3.11-and-1.2.10
github_release Patch Available

Roundcube Webmail 1.4.4

Patch available: roundcube/roundcubemail 1.4.4

https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/tag/1.4.4
generic

Comparing 1.4.3...1.4.4 · roundcube/roundcubemail · GitHub

https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/compare/1.4.3...1.4.4

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubunturoundcube-sqlite3 (1.4.3+dfsg.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2) @ focal2026-10-10ubuntu

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
roundcube—
  • every version up to 1.4.4+dfsg.1-1: fixed in 1.4.4+dfsg.1-1
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
roundcube—
  • every version up to 1.4.4+dfsg.1-1: fixed in 1.4.4+dfsg.1-1
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
roundcube—
  • every version up to 1.4.4+dfsg.1-1: fixed in 1.4.4+dfsg.1-1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
roundcube—
  • every version up to 1.4.4+dfsg.1-1: fixed in 1.4.4+dfsg.1-1
—

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(1)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 83× in last 7d / 394× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,595 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-10-10 13:41 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-10 13:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-10 09:53 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-10 09:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-10-10 06:05 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-10 06:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-10-10 02:16 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-10 02:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-10-09 22:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-10-09 18:38 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-09 18:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-10-09 14:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-10-09 11:00 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-09 11:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-10-09 07:10 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-09 07:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-10-09 03:21 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-09 03:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-10-08 23:33 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-08 23:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-10-08 19:46 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-08 19:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-10-08 15:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-10-08 12:10 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-08 12:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
Show 75 more
  1. 2026-10-08 08:22 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-08 08:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-08 04:34 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-08 04:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-10-08 00:46 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-08 00:46 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-08 00:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-10-07 23:43 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-10-07 20:58 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-07 20:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-10-07 17:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-10-07 13:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-10-07 09:31 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-07 09:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-10-07 05:42 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-07 05:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-10-07 01:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-10-06 22:03 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-06 22:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-10-06 18:16 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-06 18:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-10-06 14:27 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-06 14:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-10-06 10:40 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-06 10:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-10-06 06:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  27. 2026-10-06 02:57 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-10-06 02:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  29. 2026-10-05 23:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  30. 2026-10-05 19:19 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-10-05 19:19 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-10-05 19:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  33. 2026-10-05 17:39 UTCEPSS rescore
  34. 2026-10-05 15:30 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-10-05 15:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  36. 2026-10-05 11:39 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-10-05 11:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  38. 2026-10-05 07:52 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-10-05 07:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  40. 2026-10-05 04:04 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-10-05 04:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  42. 2026-10-05 00:14 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-10-05 00:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  44. 2026-10-04 20:25 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-10-04 20:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  46. 2026-10-04 16:37 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-10-04 16:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  48. 2026-10-04 12:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  49. 2026-10-04 09:02 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-10-04 09:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
  51. 2026-10-04 05:13 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-10-04 05:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  53. 2026-10-04 01:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  54. 2026-10-03 21:35 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-10-03 21:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  56. 2026-10-03 17:46 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-10-03 17:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  58. 2026-10-03 13:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  59. 2026-10-03 10:10 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-10-03 10:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  61. 2026-10-03 06:22 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-10-03 06:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  63. 2026-10-03 02:34 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-10-03 02:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  65. 2026-10-02 22:46 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-10-02 22:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  67. 2026-10-02 18:56 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-10-02 18:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  69. 2026-10-02 15:08 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-10-02 15:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  71. 2026-10-02 11:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  72. 2026-10-02 07:31 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-10-02 07:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  74. 2026-10-02 03:44 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-10-02 03:44 UTCGHSA enrichment

Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Working exploit code is in the public domain. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • Nucleihttp/cves/2020/CVE-2020-12641.yaml
    First seen Jan 1, 2020

    Roundcube Webmail - Command Injection

    Open source ↗

Related CVEs(same product + same vendor + same CWE)

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2020-12641?
CVE-2020-12641 is a critical vulnerability published on May 4, 2020. rcubeimage.php in Roundcube Webmail before 1.4.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in a configuration setting for imconvertpath or imidentify_path.
When was CVE-2020-12641 disclosed?
CVE-2020-12641 was first published on May 4, 2020, with the most recent update on November 4, 2025. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2020-12641 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2020-12641 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on June 22, 2023, affecting Roundcube Roundcube Webmail. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2020-12641?
CVE-2020-12641 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
Which products are affected by CVE-2020-12641?
CVE-2020-12641 affects Roundcube Roundcube Webmail. The affected packages EchelonGraph has on record, with version ranges, are listed in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2020-12641?
A fix for CVE-2020-12641 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

Dependency Blast Radius

See which npm, PyPI, Go, and Maven packages are affected by CVE-2020-12641

Explore →

Is Your Infrastructure Affected by CVE-2020-12641?

EchelonGraph automatically scans your cloud infrastructure and maps CVE exposure using blast radius analysis.

Book a Demo →Browse All CVEs