CVE-2020-13151

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Aerospike Community Edition 4.9.0.5 allows for unauthenticated submission and execution of user-defined functions (UDFs), written in Lua, as part of a database query. It attempts to restrict code execution by disabling os.execute() calls, but this is insufficient. Anyone with network access can use a crafted UDF to execute arbitrary OS commands on all nodes of the cluster at the permission level of the user running the Aerospike service.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-78

Affected software

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

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160106/Aerospike-Database-5.1.0.3-Remote-Command-Execution.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160451/Aerospike-Database-UDF-Lua-Code-Execution.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://b4ny4n.github.io/network-pentest/2020/08/01/cve-2020-13151-poc-aerospike.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
https://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/configure/security/access-control/index.html#create-users-and-assign-rolesExploit, Vendor Advisory
https://www.aerospike.com/download/server/notes.html#5.1.0.3Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://www.aerospike.com/enterprise/download/server/notes.html#5.1.0.3Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160106/Aerospike-Database-5.1.0.3-Remote-Command-Execution.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160451/Aerospike-Database-UDF-Lua-Code-Execution.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://b4ny4n.github.io/network-pentest/2020/08/01/cve-2020-13151-poc-aerospike.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
https://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/configure/security/access-control/index.html#create-users-and-assign-rolesExploit, Vendor Advisory
https://www.aerospike.com/download/server/notes.html#5.1.0.3Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://www.aerospike.com/enterprise/download/server/notes.html#5.1.0.3Release Notes, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Aug 5, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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