What is CVE-2020-29144?

CVE-2020-29144 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ericsson Bscs Ix R18 Billing \& Rating Admx, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2020-11-27.

How severe is CVE-2020-29144?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Ericsson Bscs Ix R18 Billing \& Rating Admx

CVE-2020-29144

In Ericsson BSCS iX R18 Billing & Rating iX R18, MX is a web base module in BSCS iX that is vulnerable to stored XSS via an Alert Dashboard comment. In most test cases, session hijacking was also possible by utilizing the XSS vulnerability. This potentially allows for full account takeover, or exploiting admins' browsers by using the beef framework.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2020-11-27 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (44.3th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 44th percentile — 44.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

the-it-wonders.blogspot.com/2020/01/ericsson-bscs-ix-r18-billing-rating.html (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-29144?: CVE-2020-29144 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ericsson Bscs Ix R18 Billing \& Rating Admx, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2020-11-27.
How severe is CVE-2020-29144?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.