CVE-2020-8838: Zohocorp ManageEngine Assetexplorer

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Zoho ManageEngine AssetExplorer 6.5. During an upgrade of the Windows agent, it does not validate the source and binary downloaded. This allows an attacker on an adjacent network to execute code with NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM privileges on the agent machines by providing an arbitrary executable via a man-in-the-middle attack.

Affected products

• Zohocorp ManageEngine Assetexplorer: version 6.5 only

Published 2020-03-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.