CVE-2020-7209

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This critical-severity CVE scores 9.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 99% (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekWeaponized
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 99%
  • Public exploit code is available (Metasploit, other public proof-of-concept code)
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 99%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Metasploit · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

LinuxKI v6.0-1 and earlier is vulnerable to an remote code execution which is resolved in release 6.0-2.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
84
EG Risk 84/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation99% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
99%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
99% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-22). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

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

Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

February 13, 2020

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Oct 4, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_release.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 15× in last 7d / 31× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. 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. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 7 repeat rows among the latest 71 are merged into the row they repeat.

  1. 2026-10-23 03:06 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-23 03:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4p9q-r6vf-q2pr · GitHub severity HIGH
  3. 2026-10-22 04:00 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-22 04:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4p9q-r6vf-q2pr · GitHub severity HIGH
  5. 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  6. 2026-10-21 04:53 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-21 04:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4p9q-r6vf-q2pr · GitHub severity HIGH
  8. 2026-10-20 05:47 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-20 05:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4p9q-r6vf-q2pr · GitHub severity HIGH
  10. 2026-10-19 06:40 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-19 06:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4p9q-r6vf-q2pr · GitHub severity HIGH
  12. 2026-10-18 07:34 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-18 07:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4p9q-r6vf-q2pr · GitHub severity HIGH
  14. 2026-10-17 08:25 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-17 08:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4p9q-r6vf-q2pr · GitHub severity HIGH
  16. 2026-10-16 09:18 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-16 09:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4p9q-r6vf-q2pr · GitHub severity HIGH
  18. 2026-10-15 08:52 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-15 08:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4p9q-r6vf-q2pr · GitHub severity HIGH
  20. 2026-10-14 05:07 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-14 05:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4p9q-r6vf-q2pr · GitHub severity HIGH
  22. 2026-10-13 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  23. 2026-10-13 00:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4p9q-r6vf-q2pr · GitHub severity HIGH
  24. 2026-10-12 19:32 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-11 23:55 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-10 19:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  2. 2026-10-07 23:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  3. 2026-09-30 15:22 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-09-27 09:32 UTCOSV refresh
  5. 2026-09-26 00:21 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  6. 2026-09-24 14:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
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  9. 2026-09-07 18:51 UTCOSV refresh
  10. 2026-09-06 13:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
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  12. 2026-08-30 19:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  13. 2026-08-28 21:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  14. 2026-08-21 04:44 UTCOSV refresh
  15. 2026-08-12 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  16. 2026-08-06 13:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  17. 2026-08-05 19:54 UTCOSV refresh
  18. 2026-08-05 19:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  19. 2026-07-30 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  20. 2026-07-23 01:54 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-07-22 22:41 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-07-19 19:18 UTCOSV refresh
  23. 2026-07-19 02:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  24. 2026-07-15 16:55 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  25. 2026-07-11 08:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  26. 2026-07-02 16:57 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  27. 2026-07-02 09:47 UTCOSV refresh
  28. 2026-06-15 17:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  29. 2026-06-14 08:43 UTCOSV refresh
  30. 2026-06-13 22:58 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 93% · 99th percentile
  31. 2026-06-12 23:10 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 93% · 99th percentile
  32. 2026-06-10 22:16 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 93% · 99th percentile
  33. 2026-06-10 13:20 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 93% · 99th percentile
  34. 2026-06-05 22:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 93% · 99th percentile
  35. 2026-06-01 13:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 93% · 99th percentile
  36. 2026-05-27 07:46 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-05-27 07:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4p9q-r6vf-q2pr · GitHub severity HIGH
  38. 2026-05-26 13:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 93% · 99th percentile
  39. 2026-05-26 08:16 UTCOSV refresh

Publicly available exploits

(3 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 1 Exploit-DB entry), as is 1 Nuclei detection template. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Metasploitexploit/linux/http/linuxki_rce✓ verified
    Published Jun 10, 2020

    LinuxKI Toolset 6.01 Remote Command Execution

    Open source ↗
  • Nucleihttp/cves/2020/CVE-2020-7209.yaml
    Published Jul 8, 2020

    LinuxKI Toolset <= 6.01 - Remote Command Execution

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-48483
    Published May 18, 2020

    HP LinuxKI 6.01 - Remote Command Injection

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2020-7209?
CVE-2020-7209 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on February 13, 2020. LinuxKI v6.0-1 and earlier is vulnerable to an remote code execution which is resolved in release 6.0-2.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2020-7209 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2020-7209 was published on February 13, 2020. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2020-7209 actively exploited?
CVE-2020-7209 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EchelonGraph's EG-KEV model places it in Tier 2 (Weaponized), which is not evidence of exploitation: a Metasploit module exists for it. EchelonGraph does not test whether exploit code works. FIRST EPSS estimates a 99% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2020-7209?
CVE-2020-7209 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2020-7209?
A fix for CVE-2020-7209 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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