An issue was discovered in SmartClient 12.0. Unauthenticated exploitation of blind XXE can occur in the downloadWSDL feature by sending a…

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."

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-611 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-611 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (3)

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

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2020-9352](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2020-9352.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2020-9352)

Record last updated 4 Aug 2024, 10:26 UTC.