How severe is CVE-2020-5741?

CVE-2020-5741 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.2 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 72.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2020-5741: Plex Media Server Remote Code Execution

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Plex Media Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2023-03-10

Remediation due

2023-03-31

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://forums.plex.tv/t/security-regarding-cve-2020-5741/586819; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5741

Description

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Plex Media Server on Windows allows a remote, authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary Python code.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.2 HIGH

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	Plex Media Server (Windows)	Versions prior to 1.19.3

References

2 Links

Other references

Record Details

Published

2020-05-08

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

tenable

Credited to

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