CVE-2020-37020

SonarQube 8.3.1 - Unquoted Service Path

CVSS 8.5 HIGHEPSS 0.1%CWE-428

Vexday Risk Score

21Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 8.5EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

29 Jan 2026Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

SonarQube 8.3.1 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability that allows local attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges by exploiting the service executable path. Attackers can replace the wrapper.exe in the service path with a malicious executable to execute code with highest system privileges during service restart.

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected products

Sonarqube · SonarQube

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References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48677 https://www.sonarqube.org https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sonarqube-unquoted-service-path