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Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-01-28 | Published 2026-01-29 | Updated 2026-01-29 | Assigner VulnCheck




HIGH: 8.5CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
HIGH: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

Unquoted Search Path or Element

Product status

8.3.1
affected

Credits

Velayutham Selvaraj finder

References

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48677 (ExploitDB-48677) exploit

www.sonarqube.org (SonarQube Official Homepage) product

www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sonarqube-unquoted-service-path (VulnCheck Advisory: SonarQube 8.3.1 - Unquoted Service Path) third-party-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2020-37020)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2020-37020)

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