RCE in Scytl Secure Vote

CVE-2019-25022

An issue was discovered in Scytl sVote 2.1. An attacker can inject code that gets executed by creating an election-event and injecting a payload over an event alias, because the application calls Runtime.getRuntime().exec() without validation.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.025 (84.1th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 84.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2019-25022: rose from 0.014 to 0.025.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.025 · change: +0.011

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-25022?
CVE-2019-25022 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Scytl Secure Vote, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2021-02-27.
How severe is CVE-2019-25022?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.