Is CVE-2020-22669 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2020-22669 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2020-22669?

CVE-2020-22669 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2020-22669?

CVE-2020-22669 has an EPSS score of 1.03% (60th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2020-22669?

Upgrade modsecurity-crs on debian 11 to 3.3.4-1~deb11u1 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2020-22669

CRITICAL

9.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

Modsecurity owasp-modsecurity-crs 3.2.0 (Paranoia level at PL1) has a SQL injection bypass vulnerability. Attackers can use the comment characters and variable assignments in the SQL syntax to bypass Modsecurity WAF protection and implement SQL injection attacks on Web applications.

CWE-89SQL Injection

How to fix

Remediation Available

modsecurity-crsDebian

Fixed in:3.3.4-1~deb11u1CVE-2020-22669

Fixed in:3.3.2-1CVE-2020-22669

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

1.03%probability of exploitation in 30 days

60thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 60% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch1

github.com

Exploit1

github.com

Third-Party Advisory1

lists.debian.org

Other references1

lists.debian.org

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-89 (SQL Injection) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2014-3704	High	7.5	100%	-	Fix
CVE-2015-7297	High	7.5	100%	-	-
CVE-2024-29824	High	8.8	100%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2023-34362	Critical	9.8	100%	KEV + Ransom	Fix
CVE-2019-7481	High	7.5	100%	KEV + Ransom	Fix
CVE-2024-29826	High	8.8	100%	-	Fix

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2025-11-03.