{
    "id": "CVE-2020-14001",
    "published": "2020-07-17 16:15:11",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-17 02:54:04",
    "cvss_score": "9.8",
    "cvss_severity": "CRITICAL",
    "cvss_version": "3.1",
    "cvss_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "cwe": "CWE-862",
    "description": "The kramdown gem before 2.3.0 for Ruby processes the template option inside Kramdown documents by default, which allows unintended read access (such as template=\"/etc/passwd\") or unintended embedded Ruby code execution (such as a string that begins with template=\"string://<%= `). NOTE: kramdown is used in Jekyll, GitLab Pages, GitHub Pages, and Thredded Forum.",
    "epss_score": "0.04560",
    "epss_percentile": "0.91347",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 0,
    "updated_at": "2026-10-07 18:17:22",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 3,
        "label": "In your normal cycle",
        "why": "Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "canonical",
            "product": "ubuntu_linux"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "debian",
            "product": "debian_linux"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "fedoraproject",
            "product": "fedora"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "kramdown_project",
            "product": "kramdown"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [],
    "refs_list": [
        "https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown",
        "https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/commit/1b8fd33c3120bfc6e5164b449e2c2fc9c9306fde",
        "https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/compare/REL_2_2_1...REL_2_3_0",
        "https://kramdown.gettalong.org",
        "https://kramdown.gettalong.org/news.html",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r96df7899fbb456fe2705882f710a0c8e8614b573fbffd8d12e3f54d2%40%3Cnotifications.fluo.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00014.html",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ENMMGKHRQIZ3QKGOMBBBGB6B4LB5I7NQ/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KBLTGBYU7NKOUOHDKVCU4GFZMGA6BP4L/",
        "https://rubygems.org/gems/kramdown",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200731-0004/",
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4562-1/",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4743",
        "https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown",
        "https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/commit/1b8fd33c3120bfc6e5164b449e2c2fc9c9306fde",
        "https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/compare/REL_2_2_1...REL_2_3_0",
        "https://kramdown.gettalong.org",
        "https://kramdown.gettalong.org/news.html",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r96df7899fbb456fe2705882f710a0c8e8614b573fbffd8d12e3f54d2%40%3Cnotifications.fluo.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00014.html",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ENMMGKHRQIZ3QKGOMBBBGB6B4LB5I7NQ/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KBLTGBYU7NKOUOHDKVCU4GFZMGA6BP4L/",
        "https://rubygems.org/gems/kramdown",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200731-0004/",
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4562-1/"
    ]
}