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Vulnerability record · CVE-2020-35580 · published 20 May 2021

CVE-2020-35580: Searchblox path traversal vulnerability

Searchblox · Searchblox

A local file inclusion vulnerability in the FileServlet in all SearchBlox before 9.2.2 allows remote, unauthenticated users to read arbitrary files from the operating system via a /searchblox/servlet/FileServlet?col=url= request. Additionally, this may be used to read the contents of the SearchBlox configuration file (e.g., searchblox/WEB-INF/config.xml), which contains both the Super Admin's API key and the base64 encoded SHA1 password hashes of other SearchBlox users.

7.5 CVSS 3.1 High EPSS 14% · top 3.6% CWE-22 · Path traversal
7.5CVSS 3.1 base score, v2 5.0
14%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
4References, 2 tagged exploit
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

A local file inclusion vulnerability in the FileServlet in all SearchBlox before 9.2.2 allows remote, unauthenticated users to read arbitrary files from the operating system via a /searchblox/servlet/FileServlet?col=url= request. Additionally, this may be used to read the contents of the SearchBlox configuration file (e.g., searchblox/WEB-INF/config.xml), which contains both the Super Admin's API key and the base64 encoded SHA1 password hashes of other SearchBlox users.

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

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://developer.searchblox.com/docs/getting-started-with-searchblox Vendor Advisory
https://hateshape.github.io/general/2021/05/11/CVE-2020-35580.html ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://developer.searchblox.com/docs/getting-started-with-searchblox Vendor Advisory
https://hateshape.github.io/general/2021/05/11/CVE-2020-35580.html ExploitThird Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2020-35580), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.