7.2
CVSSv3

CVE-2020-5741

Published: 08/05/2020 Updated: 14/12/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.2
VMScore: 578
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Plex Media Server on Windows allows a remote, authenticated malicious user to execute arbitrary Python code.

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Exploits

This Metasploit module exploits an authenticated Python unsafe pickleload of a Dict file An authenticated attacker can create a photo library and add arbitrary files to it After setting the Windows only Plex variable LocalAppDataPath to the newly created photo library, a file named Dict will be unpickled, which causes remote code execution as th ...