CVE-2020-10199

CRITICALNVD 8.89.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2021-11-03), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 8.8 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.8 HIGH under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Exploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2020-0379 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-g2f6-v5qh-h2mq (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 99%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: Metasploit · Exploit-DB (verified) · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Sonatype Nexus Repository before 3.21.2 allows JavaEL Injection (issue 1 of 2).

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
80
EG Risk 80/100

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)
Severity88% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (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, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
EPSS PROB
99%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

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

The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.8 HIGH.

EG Severity
8.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
99% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

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

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

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (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)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). 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

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10199

Published

April 1, 2020

Last Modified

November 7, 2025

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Nov 2, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Patch available. Sources: cisa.
CISA🔴 Active Exploitation

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-10199
Web page

CWE - CWE-917: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an Expression Language Statement (5.0)

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/917.html

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
mavenorg.sonatype.nexus:nexus-extdirect @ 3.21.2 (fixes < 3.21.2)—ghsa

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

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Maven(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
org.sonatype.nexus:nexus-extdirect3.0.0-03 ... 3.9.0-01 (49 versions)
  • every version up to 3.21.2: fixed in 3.21.2
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Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 28× 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.

Showing the most recent 100 of 143 refreshes on record for this CVE.

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. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 43 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 21:14 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-01 21:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g2f6-v5qh-h2mq · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  3. 2026-11-01 08:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g2f6-v5qh-h2mq · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  4. 2026-11-01 08:39 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-31 19:18 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-30 17:22 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-29 15:27 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-28 13:30 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-27 11:31 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-25 18:54 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-25 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  12. 2026-10-25 07:38 UTCEG score recompute
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  19. 2026-10-18 09:38 UTCEG score recompute
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  22. 2026-10-15 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  23. 2026-10-15 14:03 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-14 12:05 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-12 19:49 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-11 19:48 UTCEG score recompute
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  3. 2026-10-11 11:37 UTCEG score recompute
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  5. 2026-09-30 14:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  6. 2026-09-29 00:52 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-28 16:42 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-09-27 21:51 UTCCISA KEV update
  9. 2026-09-26 19:43 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-09-26 15:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  11. 2026-09-25 19:35 UTCCISA KEV update
  12. 2026-09-25 14:55 UTCCISA KEV update
  13. 2026-09-24 19:31 UTCCISA KEV update
  14. 2026-09-22 19:36 UTCCISA KEV update
  15. 2026-09-22 17:33 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-09-22 14:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  17. 2026-09-21 21:04 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-09-21 20:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  19. 2026-09-21 19:09 UTCCISA KEV update
  20. 2026-09-18 19:20 UTCCISA KEV update
  21. 2026-09-18 14:15 UTCCISA KEV update
  22. 2026-09-16 14:10 UTCCISA KEV update
  23. 2026-09-16 06:05 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-15 05:35 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-15 03:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  26. 2026-09-14 19:24 UTCCISA KEV update
  27. 2026-09-11 18:49 UTCCISA KEV update
  28. 2026-09-11 15:44 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-09-11 14:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  30. 2026-09-10 19:28 UTCCISA KEV update
  31. 2026-09-09 19:08 UTCCISA KEV update
  32. 2026-09-08 18:54 UTCCISA KEV update
  33. 2026-09-06 16:43 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-09-06 13:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  35. 2026-09-05 16:12 UTCEG score recompute
  36. 2026-09-05 15:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  37. 2026-09-04 17:38 UTCCISA KEV update
  38. 2026-09-02 17:33 UTCCISA KEV update
  39. 2026-08-31 14:19 UTCCISA KEV update
  40. 2026-08-28 23:50 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-08-28 21:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  42. 2026-08-27 17:22 UTCCISA KEV update
  43. 2026-08-26 17:41 UTCCISA KEV update
  44. 2026-08-24 18:52 UTCCISA KEV update
  45. 2026-08-24 17:26 UTCEG score recompute
  46. 2026-08-24 09:17 UTCEG score recompute
  47. 2026-08-21 16:49 UTCCISA KEV update
  48. 2026-08-20 23:38 UTCEG score recompute
  49. 2026-08-20 22:51 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  50. 2026-08-20 17:06 UTCCISA KEV update
  51. 2026-08-19 17:33 UTCCISA KEV update
  52. 2026-08-18 16:58 UTCCISA KEV update
  53. 2026-08-17 13:56 UTCCISA KEV update
  54. 2026-08-12 15:20 UTCEG score recompute
  55. 2026-08-12 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  56. 2026-08-11 19:32 UTCCISA KEV update
  57. 2026-08-11 14:50 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-08-10 14:21 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-08-08 17:28 UTCEG score recompute
  60. 2026-08-08 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  61. 2026-08-07 17:09 UTCCISA KEV update
  62. 2026-08-05 17:25 UTCCISA KEV update
  63. 2026-08-04 17:02 UTCCISA KEV update
  64. 2026-08-03 19:22 UTCCISA KEV update
  65. 2026-07-30 12:43 UTCEG score recompute
  66. 2026-07-29 19:27 UTCCISA KEV update
  67. 2026-07-27 19:24 UTCCISA KEV update
  68. 2026-07-27 17:17 UTCCISA KEV update
  69. 2026-07-26 14:33 UTCEG score recompute
  70. 2026-07-26 02:18 UTCEG score recompute
  71. 2026-07-24 14:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  72. 2026-07-23 01:48 UTCEG score recompute
  73. 2026-07-22 22:32 UTCEG score recompute
  74. 2026-07-22 19:40 UTCCISA KEV update
  75. 2026-07-22 16:46 UTCEG score recompute

Publicly available exploits

(9 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 2 Exploit-DB entries, 5 GitHub PoCs), 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.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-49385✓ verified
    Published Jan 6, 2021

    Sonatype Nexus 3.21.1 - Remote Code Execution (Authenticated)

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-48343✓ verified
    Published Apr 17, 2020

    Nexus Repository Manager - Java EL Injection RCE (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/linux/http/nexus_repo_manager_el_injection✓ verified
    Published Apr 16, 2020

    Nexus Repository Manager Java EL Injection RCE

    Open source ↗
  • Nucleihttp/cves/2020/CVE-2020-10199.yaml
    Published Jul 8, 2020

    Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager 3 - Remote Code Execution

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCaleenzz/CVE-2020-10199
    Published May 15, 2020

    CVE-2020-10199 回显版本

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCzhzyker/CVE-2020-10199_POC-EXP
    Published Apr 16, 2020

    CVE-2020-10199 Nexus <= 3.21.1 远程代码执行脚本(有回显)

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCjas502n/CVE-2020-10199
    Published Apr 8, 2020

    CVE-2020-10199、CVE-2020-10204、CVE-2020-11444

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCmagicming200/CVE-2020-10199_CVE-2020-10204
    Published Apr 8, 2020

    CVE-2020-10199、CVE-2020-10204漏洞一键检测工具,图形化界面。CVE-2020-10199 and CVE-2020-10204 Vul Tool with GUI.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCwsfengfan/CVE-2020-10199-10204
    Published Apr 7, 2020

    CVE-2020-10199 CVE-2020-10204 Python POC

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2020-10199?
CVE-2020-10199 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on April 1, 2020. Sonatype Nexus Repository before 3.21.2 allows JavaEL Injection (issue 1 of 2).
When was the CVE record for CVE-2020-10199 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2020-10199 was published on April 1, 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 7, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2020-10199 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2020-10199 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on November 3, 2021, affecting Sonatype Nexus Repository. 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-2020-10199?
CVE-2020-10199 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2020-10199?
CVE-2020-10199 affects Sonatype Nexus Repository. 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-2020-10199?
A fix for CVE-2020-10199 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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