CVE-2020-37020: Sonarqube

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

SonarQube 8.3.1 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability that allows local attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges by exploiting the service executable path. Attackers can replace the wrapper.exe in the service path with a malicious executable to execute code with highest system privileges during service restart.

Affected products

• Sonarqube Sonarqube: version 8.3.1 only

Published 2026-01-29. Last modified 2026-10-07.