CVE-2020-13959
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) in Apache Velocity Tools
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 2.0-8 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 2.0-8 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 2.0-8 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 2.0-8 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 2.0-8 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.apache.velocity.tools:velocity-tools-parent | <3.1 | 3.1 |
| Maven | org.apache.velocity:velocity-tools | <=2.0 | |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13959
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6802a38c3041059e763a1aadd7b37fe95de75408144b5805e29b84e3%40%3Cuser.velocity.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6802a38c3041059e763a1aadd7b37fe95de75408144b5805e29b84e3@%3Cuser.velocity.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r97edad0655770342d2d36620fb1de50b142fcd6c4f5c53dd72ca41d7@%3Cuser.velocity.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb042f3b0090e419cc9f5a3d32cf0baff283ccd6fcb1caea61915d6b6@%3Ccommits.velocity.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9868c564cff7adfd5283563f2309b93b3e496354a211a57503b2f72@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00021.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-52
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/10/2
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-13959
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.