CVE-2020-10788 — openITCOCKPIT before 3

openITCOCKPIT before 3.7.3 uses the 1fea123e07f730f76e661bced33a94152378611e API key rather than generating a random API Key for WebSocket connections.

01What is this vulnerability?

openITCOCKPIT before 3.7.3 uses the 1fea123e07f730f76e661bced33a94152378611e API key rather than generating a random API Key for WebSocket connections.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-03-25T14:04:47.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T11:14:15.593Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/it-novum/openITCOCKPIT/commit/581cc9007bbfba84a2575729d5d903a…
• openitcockpit.io — https://openitcockpit.io/2020/2020/03/23/openitcockpit-3-7-3-released/