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CVE-2020-12641

Exploitation: active CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL

CVSS base score: 9.8 (Critical) CISA · v3.1

Score assigned by CISA's Vulnrichment program; the vendor's CVE record did not include one.

Roundcube Webmail Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Vendor: Roundcube   Product: Roundcube Webmail

Description

Roundcube Webmail contains an remote code execution vulnerability that allows attackers to execute code via shell metacharacters in a configuration setting for im_convert_path or im_identify_path.

Lifecycle Timeline

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 262 points from 2021-12-11, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 93.7% on 2025-06-21.

Published Applicability

Red Hat CSAF/VEX 0 affected · 0 fixed · 1 not affected
OSV.dev (incl. GHSA) 12 affected · 12 fixed · 0 not affected
CVE List v5 (CNA container) 1 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected

Check whether a specific version is affected →

What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Research & News Coverage

No mentions found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.

Detection & Exploitation

Exploit / Pen Test
Network IDS/IPS
none published
Host / SIEM
none published

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

Distribution Status

Debian · roundcube bookworm 1.4.4+dfsg.1-1 trixie 1.4.4+dfsg.1-1 forky 1.4.4+dfsg.1-1 sid 1.4.4+dfsg.1-1 scope: local

Where the distribution has shipped a fix, and in which version. Green means the release has resolved it, amber that it is still open. Data from the Debian Security Tracker, used under Debian's MIT / GPLv2+ terms. Debian is upstream of several other distributions, so a fix here often precedes theirs.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

active
yes
total
9.8 CRITICAL
—
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-78 — Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
2025-02-04

D3FEND Countermeasures

Defensive techniques inferred by MITRE D3FEND from the underlying weakness (CWE-78) — general hardening and detection guidance for this weakness class, not a vendor patch for this specific CVE.

KEV Catalog Status

2023-06-22
2023-07-13
Unknown

Listed By

SourceDateRecord
CISA KEV 2023-06-22 source record →
CISA Vulnrichment 2025-02-04 source record →

Referenced in Advisories

DateAdvisoryIssuer
2025-05-21 Russian GRU Targeting Western Logistics Entities and Technology Companies NSA
2025-05-21 Russian GRU Targeting Western Logistics Entities and Technology Companies NSA

Weaponization Timeline — Offensive & Testing Tools

No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.

Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.

External References