CVE-2020-13122 — The novish command-line interface, included in NoviFlow NoviWare before NW500

The novish command-line interface, included in NoviFlow NoviWare before NW500.2.12 and deployed on NoviSwitch devices, is vulnerable to command injection in the "show status destination ipaddr" command. This could be used by a read-only user (monitoring group) or admin

01What is this vulnerability?

The novish command-line interface, included in NoviFlow NoviWare before NW500.2.12 and deployed on NoviSwitch devices, is vulnerable to command injection in the "show status destination ipaddr" command. This could be used by a read-only user (monitoring group) or admin to execute commands on the operating system.

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: 2020-08-17T15:59:25.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T12:11:18.611Z

09References

• drive.google.com — https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iL4cc0ZbQK9s190DbFQD7mWYbBH-vlJb/view?usp=shari…