What is CVE-2020-10290?

CVE-2020-10290 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Sintef Urx, classified under CWE-250. CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2020-08-21.

How severe is CVE-2020-10290?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Sintef Urx

CVE-2020-10290

Universal Robots controller execute URCaps (zip files containing Java-powered applications) without any permission restrictions and a wide API that presents many primitives that can compromise the overall robot operations as demonstrated in our video. In our PoC we demonstrate how a malicious actor could 'cook' a custom URCap that when deployed by the user (intendedly or unintendedly) compromises the system

Published 2020-08-21 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (26.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 27th percentile — 26.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Sintef Urx
Universal Robots Urx — versions unspecified

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

github.com/aliasrobotics/RVD/issues/1495 (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-10290?: CVE-2020-10290 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Sintef Urx, classified under CWE-250. CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2020-08-21.
How severe is CVE-2020-10290?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.