What is CVE-2020-26283?

CVE-2020-26283 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ipfs Go-Ipfs, classified under Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output. CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2021-03-24.

How severe is CVE-2020-26283?

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

Vulnerability in Ipfs Go-Ipfs

CVE-2020-26283

go-ipfs is an open-source golang implementation of IPFS which is a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem. In go-ipfs before version 0.8.0, control characters are not escaped from console output. This can result in hiding input from the user which could result in the user taking an unknown, malicious action. This is fixed in version 0.8.0.

Published 2021-03-24 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

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

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (73.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 73rd percentile — 73.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Ipfs Go-Ipfs — versions < 0.8.0
Protocol Go-Ipfs

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-116 — Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

References

github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/security/advisories/GHSA-r4gv-vj59-cccm (Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/7831 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/commit/fb0a9acd2d8288bd1028c3219a420de62a09683a (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-26283?: CVE-2020-26283 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ipfs Go-Ipfs, classified under Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output. CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2021-03-24.
How severe is CVE-2020-26283?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.