What is CVE-2020-1696?

CVE-2020-1696 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dogtagpki, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.6/10. Published 2020-03-20.

How severe is CVE-2020-1696?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.6 out of 10.

XSS in Dogtagpki

CVE-2020-1696

A flaw was found in the all pki-core 10.x.x versions, where Token Processing Service (TPS) where it did not properly sanitize Profile IDs, enabling a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability when the profile ID is printed. An attacker with sufficient permissions could trick an authenticated victim into executing a specially crafted Javascript code.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2020-03-20 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.008 (55.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-31.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 55th percentile — 55.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Dogtagpki
[Unknown] Pki-Core — versions all pki-core 10.x.x versions
Red Hat Certificate System — versions 9.0, 10.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-1696?: CVE-2020-1696 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dogtagpki, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.6/10. Published 2020-03-20.
How severe is CVE-2020-1696?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.6 out of 10.