CVE-2020-12713

An issue was discovered in CipherMail Community Gateway and Professional/Enterprise Gateway 1.0.1...

7.2 High

An issue was discovered in CipherMail Community Gateway and Professional/Enterprise Gateway 1.0.1 through 4.7.1-0 and CipherMail Webmail Messenger 1.1.1 through 3.1.1-0. Attackers with administrative access to the web interface have multiple options to escalate their privileges to the Unix root account.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges needed: High
User interaction: None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality: High
Integrity: High
Availability: High

Exploit likelihood

2.63%Up 1.1 points since Apr 14, 2021

What each source reports

NVD Score used 7.2

Record: CVE-2020-12713
CVSS 3.1: 7.2 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0: 9.0 HighAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness: CWE-269
Updated: 2026-11-02

CVE List No score

Record: CVE-2020-12713
Updated: 2026-11-02

EUVDEUVD-2020-5001 No score

Record: EUVD-2020-5001
Updated: 2026-11-03

GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-78j9-3m69-vxv3 No score

An issue was discovered in CipherMail Community Gateway and Professional/Enterprise Gateway 1.0.1...

Record: GHSA-78j9-3m69-vxv3
Updated: 2026-11-02

Affected products

History

History
Recorded	Changed	Sources
Nov 3, 2026	aliases	EUVD
Nov 2, 2026	first indexed	CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2020-12713 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.2) in Ciphermail Gateway, published June 11, 2020. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.63%, the 85th percentile. No source names a fixed version.