What is CVE-2020-7651?

CVE-2020-7651 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Synk Broker, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2020-05-29.

How severe is CVE-2020-7651?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Synk Broker

CVE-2020-7651

All versions of snyk-broker before 4.79.0 are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read. It allows partial file reads for users who have access to Snyk's internal network via patch history from GitHub Commits API.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2020-05-29 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (64.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 65th percentile — 64.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Synk Broker
Snyk-Broker — versions all versions before 4.79.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

updates.snyk.io/snyk-broker-security-fixes-152338 (Vendor Advisory)
snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SNYKBROKER-570610 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-7651?: CVE-2020-7651 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Synk Broker, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2020-05-29.
How severe is CVE-2020-7651?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.