CVE-2020-6920 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

HP Support Assistant

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`before 9.11`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Hp Subscribe	Support Assistant Subscribe

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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

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'}`

Projects

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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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