CVE-2020-8540: Zohocorp ManageEngine Desktop Central

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 12.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central before the 07-Mar-2020 update allows remote unauthenticated users to read arbitrary files or conduct server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks via a crafted DTD in an XML request.

Affected products

• Zohocorp ManageEngine Desktop Central: before 2020-03-07 (fixed in 2020-03-07)

Published 2020-03-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.