🛡️ CVE-2020-8920 — gerrit-plugin-api

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-863 OSV
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Information leak in Gerrit

An information leak vulnerability exists in Gerrit versions prior to 2.14.22, 2.15.21, 2.16.25, 3.0.15, 3.1.10, 3.2.5 where an overoptimization with the FilteredRepository wrapper skips the verification of access on All-Users repositories, allowing an attacker to get read access to all users' personal information associated with their accounts.

Weakness class

CVE-2020-8920 is classified as CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization. An authorisation check runs but reaches the wrong conclusion, permitting actions it should refuse.

Affected software

CVE-2020-8920 is recorded against 1 package.

  • com.google.gerrit:gerrit-plugin-api (from 3.2.0 up to 3.2.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2022 and last revised on 30 November 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
gerrit.googlesource.com (Web)
issues.gerritcodereview.com (Web)
www.gerritcodereview.com (Web)
www.gerritcodereview.com (Web)
www.gerritcodereview.com (Web)
www.gerritcodereview.com (Web)
www.gerritcodereview.com (Web)
www.gerritcodereview.com (Web)

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-863
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-24
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-11-30
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
com.google.gerrit:gerrit-plugin-api 3.2.0 3.2.5

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