CVE-2020-6920 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Potential security vulnerabilities including compromise of integrity, and allowed communication with untrusted clients has been identified in HP Support Assistant software.

Published: 2022-02-16

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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HP Support Assistant

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`before 9.11`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:hp:support_assistant:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2020-28062	Potential security vulnerabilities including compromise of integrity, and allowed communication with untrusted clients has been identified in HP Support Assistant software.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00856.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/mandiant/Vulnerability-Disclosures/blob/master/2022/MNDT-2022-0030/MNDT-2022-0030.md
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_5585999-5586023-16

History

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Hp Support Assistant

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hp

Published: 2022-02-16T16:38:09.000Z

Updated: 2026-10-08T21:13:54.039Z

Reserved: 2020-01-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-6920

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T09:18:01.475Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-02-16T17:15:10.123

Modified: 2026-10-08T22:17:02.843

Link: CVE-2020-6920

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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