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CVE-2020-13151
Aerospike Community Edition 4.9.0.5 allows for unauthenticated submission and execution of user-defined functions (UDFs), written in Lua,…
Critical9.8EPSS 86.5%
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- mitre
Description
Aerospike Community Edition 4.9.0.5 allows for unauthenticated submission and execution of user-defined functions (UDFs), written in Lua, as part of a database query. It attempts to restrict code execution by disabling os.execute() calls, but this is insufficient. Anyone with network access can use a crafted UDF to execute arbitrary OS commands on all nodes of the cluster at the permission level of the user running the Aerospike service.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 86.5% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (6)
- https://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/configure/security/access-control/index.html#create-users-and-assign-roles (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://b4ny4n.github.io/network-pentest/2020/08/01/cve-2020-13151-poc-aerospike.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.aerospike.com/download/server/notes.html#5.1.0.3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.aerospike.com/enterprise/download/server/notes.html#5.1.0.3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160106/Aerospike-Database-5.1.0.3-Remote-Command-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160451/Aerospike-Database-UDF-Lua-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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