What is CVE-2020-10788?

CVE-2020-10788 is a critical-severity vulnerability in It-Novum Openitcockpit, classified under Use of Hard-coded Credentials. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2020-03-25.

How severe is CVE-2020-10788?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.

Vulnerability in It-Novum Openitcockpit

CVE-2020-10788

openITCOCKPIT before 3.7.3 uses the 1fea123e07f730f76e661bced33a94152378611e API key rather than generating a random API Key for WebSocket connections.

Published 2020-03-25 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.1 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.016 (75.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-20.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 75.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

It-Novum Openitcockpit

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-798 — Use of Hard-coded Credentials

References

github.com/it-novum/openITCOCKPIT/commit/581cc9007bbfba84a2575729d5d903ab3a8f25… (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
openitcockpit.io/2020/2020/03/23/openitcockpit-3-7-3-released/ (Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-10788?: CVE-2020-10788 is a critical-severity vulnerability in It-Novum Openitcockpit, classified under Use of Hard-coded Credentials. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2020-03-25.
How severe is CVE-2020-10788?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.