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CVE-2020-13846· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

Sylabs Singularity 3.5.0 through 3.5.3 fails to report an error in a Status Code.

HighCVSS 7.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

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Published
Jul 14, 2020
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
1.3% · 70th percentile
CWE
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Action score

30

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 1.3%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
sylabssingularity

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • sylabs singularity3.5.0 and later · up to 3.5.3 inclusive

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Gogithub.com/sylabs/singularityfrom 3.5.0 · before 3.6.03.6.0
openSUSE:Leap 15.1singularitybefore 3.6.0-lp151.2.6.13.6.0-lp151.2.6.1
openSUSE:Leap 15.2singularitybefore 3.6.0-lp152.2.3.13.6.0-lp152.2.3.1
openSUSE:Tumbleweedsingularitybefore 3.8.3-1.23.8.3-1.2
SUSE:Package Hub 15 SP2singularitybefore 3.6.0-bp152.2.4.13.6.0-bp152.2.4.1

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2021-33027Sylabs Singularity Enterprise through 1.6.2 has Insufficient Entropy in a nonce.
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2021-33622Sylabs Singularity 3.5.x and 3.6.x, and SingularityPRO before 3.5-8, has an Incorrect Check of a Function's Return Value.
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2020-15229Path traversal and files overwrite with unsquashfs
    38Monitor
  • CVE-2020-25040Sylabs Singularity through 3.6.2 has Insecure Permissions on temporary directories used in explicit and implicit container build operations,
    36Monitor
  • CVE-2019-11328An issue was discovered in Singularity 3.1.0 to 3.2.0-rc2, a malicious user with local/network access to the host system (e.g.
    36Monitor
  • CVE-2020-25039Sylabs Singularity 3.2.0 through 3.6.2 has Insecure Permissions on temporary directories used in fakeroot or user namespace container execut
    33Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Go:github.com/sylabs/singularity3.6.0Package registry (OSV)
opensuse:singularity3.6.0-lp152.2.3.1 · openSUSE:Leap 15.2Package registry (OSV)
suse:singularity3.6.0-bp152.2.4.1 · SUSE:Package Hub 15 SP2Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Finders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.

No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
none
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

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CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Attack context

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MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.

Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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