CVE•Published 2020-04-20•Modified 2026-09-22•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2020-11753Sonatype · Nexus_repository_manager
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
76
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 24% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
An issue was discovered in Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager in versions 3.21.1 and 3.22.0. It is possible for a user with appropriate privileges to create, modify, and execute scripting tasks without use of the UI or API. NOTE: in 3.22.0, scripting is disabled by default (making this not exploitable).
Timeline
Published 2020-04-20
Modified 2026-09-22
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2020-11753Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product + version
product:"Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager" version:"3.21.1"Version-pinned fingerprint from NVD's first vulnerable CPE.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Nexus Repository Manager"HTTP body or banner mentions "Nexus Repository Manager" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2020-11753Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2020-11753Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2020-11753Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2020-11753GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2020-11753" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (2)
CVE-2020-117532 repos
Josh-blythe/bordair-multimodalPython
Open-source cross-modal and multimodal prompt injection test suite. 250,000+ attack payloads across text, image, document, and audio modalities. Research-backed by OWASP LLM Top 10…
yks0000/starred-repo-tocGo
Generates Markdown table for all Starred Repositories by a GitHub user.