CVE-2020-12873

HIGH 8.8CVE-2020-12873 · Published 19/02/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-12873 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting alfresco enterprise content management (atlassian).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 76.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 6.2.1 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
alfresco enterprise content management atlassian	`< 6.2.1`	`6.2.1`

Description

An issue was discovered in Alfresco Enterprise Content Management (ECM) before 6.2.1. A user with privileges to edit a FreeMarker template (e.g., a webscript) may execute arbitrary Java code or run arbitrary system commands with the same privileges as the account running Alfresco.

References

issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/MNT-21510 · Issue Tracking
securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-039-alfresco · Third Party Advisory

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