What is CVE-2020-24715?

CVE-2020-24715 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Scalyr Agent, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-08-27.

How severe is CVE-2020-24715?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Scalyr Agent

CVE-2020-24715

The Scalyr Agent before 2.1.10 has Missing SSL Certificate Validation because, in some circumstances, native Python code is used that lacks a comparison of the hostname to commonName and subjectAltName.

Vulnerability class: Improper Certificate Validation

Published 2020-08-27 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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: 0.008 (53.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-04.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 54th percentile — 53.9% 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

Scalyr Agent

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation

References

scalyr-static.s3.amazonaws.com/technical-details/index.html (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-24715?: CVE-2020-24715 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Scalyr Agent, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-08-27.
How severe is CVE-2020-24715?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.