CVE-2020-15250

MEDIUMNVD 5.55.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

This medium-severity CVE scores 5.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 1.7% (77th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory CVSS 4.4 is lower than this score; a lower GitHub score revises it only when its advisory is newer than the CVE record's last change, and this advisory (published 2020-10-12) is not newer than that change (2026-10-07), so it does not.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2020-1400 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-269g-pwp5-87pp (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

5.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 1.7%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

In JUnit4 from version 4.7 and before 4.13.1, the test rule TemporaryFolder contains a local information disclosure vulnerability. On Unix like systems, the system's temporary directory is shared between all users on that system. Because of this, when files and directories are written into this directory they are, by default, readable by other users on that same system. This vulnerability does not allow other users to overwrite the contents of these directories or files. This is purely an information disclosure vulnerability. This vulnerability impacts you if the JUnit tests write sensitive information, like API keys or passwords, into the temporary folder, and the JUnit tests execute in an environment where the OS has other untrusted users. Because certain JDK file system APIs were only added in JDK 1.7, this this fix is dependent upon the version of the JDK you are using. For Java 1.7 and higher users: this vulnerability is fixed in 4.13.1. For Java 1.6 and lower users: no patch is available, you must use the workaround below. If you are unable to patch, or are stuck running on Java 1.6, specifying the java.io.tmpdir system environment variable to a directory that is exclusively owned by the executing user will fix this vulnerability. For more information, including an example of vulnerable code, see the referenced GitHub Security Advisory.

CVSS v3
5.5
EG Score
5.5MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
25
EG Risk 25/100

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)
Severity55% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 5.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation1.7% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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.
EPSS PROB
1.7%
EPSS %ILE
77th
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 (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
1.7% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). 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 every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade 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 every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

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

Published

October 12, 2020

Last Modified

October 7, 2026

Advisory Details (10)

Auto-updated Oct 7, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github, github_commit.
Web page

junit4/doc/ReleaseNotes4.13.1.md at 7852b90cfe1cea1e0cdaa19d490c83f0d8684b50 · junit-team/junit4 · GitHub

https://github.com/junit-team/junit4/blob/7852b90cfe1cea1e0cdaa19d490c83f0d8684b50/doc/ReleaseNotes4.13.1.md
GitHub commit Patch Available

commit 610155b8c221 (junit-team/junit4)

Patch available: junit-team/junit4 r4.13.1 (contains commit 610155b8c221)

https://github.com/junit-team/junit4/commit/610155b8c22138329f0723eec22521627dbc52ae
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

TemporaryFolder on unix-like systems does not limit access to created files · Advisory · junit-team/junit4 · GitHub

Affected: 4.13.1.

https://github.com/junit-team/junit4/security/advisories/GHSA-269g-pwp5-87pp

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2020-15250(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(3)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntujunit4-doc (4.12-4ubuntu1.1) @ xenial2026-10-25ubuntu
redhatjunit42022-07-07redhat
mavenjunit:junit @ 4.13.1 (fixes >= 4.7, < 4.13.1)—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

(6 across 6 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
junit4—
  • every version up to 4.13.1-1: fixed in 4.13.1-1
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
junit4—
  • every version up to 4.13.1-1: fixed in 4.13.1-1
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
junit4—
  • every version up to 4.13.1-1: fixed in 4.13.1-1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
junit4—
  • every version up to 4.13.1-1: fixed in 4.13.1-1
—
Debian:9(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
junit44.12-4
  • every version up to 4.12-4+deb9u1: fixed in 4.12-4+deb9u1
—
Maven(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
junit:junit4.10 ... 4.9 (18 versions)
  • 4.7 up to 4.13.1: fixed in 4.13.1
—

Weakness Classification(2)

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

Additional Vendor Advisories

(1)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 42× 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 97 of 204 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. 3 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 107 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  2. 2026-11-01 08:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-269g-pwp5-87pp · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 4.4
  3. 2026-11-01 08:38 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-31 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  5. 2026-10-30 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  6. 2026-10-29 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
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  9. 2026-10-26 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 76th percentile
  10. 2026-10-25 18:50 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-25 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 76th percentile
  12. 2026-10-25 02:30 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-25 02:30 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-24 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 76th percentile
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  21. 2026-10-18 09:33 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-17 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 76th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-13 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 76th percentile
  2. 2026-10-12 19:45 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-12 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 76th percentile
  4. 2026-10-12 00:08 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-11 13:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 76th percentile
  6. 2026-10-10 19:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 76th percentile
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  8. 2026-10-08 16:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 76th percentile
  9. 2026-10-07 23:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 76th percentile
  10. 2026-10-07 21:46 UTCEG score recompute▲ 1.10
  11. 2026-10-07 21:46 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-07 21:23 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 5.5
  13. 2026-10-07 20:46 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-07 20:46 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-06 15:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 76th percentile
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  20. 2026-09-30 15:12 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-09-30 14:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 76th percentile
  22. 2026-09-27 13:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 76th percentile
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  28. 2026-09-20 01:46 UTCOSV refresh
  29. 2026-09-18 19:23 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 76th percentile
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2020-15250?
CVE-2020-15250 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 12, 2020. In JUnit4 from version 4.7 and before 4.13.1, the test rule TemporaryFolder contains a local information disclosure vulnerability. On Unix like systems, the system's temporary directory is shared between all users on that system. Because of this, when files and directories are written into this…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2020-15250 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2020-15250 was published on October 12, 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 October 7, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2020-15250 actively exploited?
CVE-2020-15250 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (77th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2020-15250?
CVE-2020-15250 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2020-15250?
A fix for CVE-2020-15250 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2020-15250 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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