How severe is CVE-2020-8515?

CVE-2020-8515 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). EPSS estimates a 100.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2020-8515: Multiple DrayTek Vigor Routers Web Management Page

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Multiple DrayTek Vigor Routers Web Management Page Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2021-11-03

Remediation due

2022-05-03

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8515

Description

DrayTek Vigor2960 1.3.1_Beta, Vigor3900 1.4.4_Beta, and Vigor300B 1.3.3_Beta, 1.4.2.1_Beta, and 1.4.4_Beta devices allow remote code execution as root (without authentication) via shell metacharacters to the cgi-bin/mainfunction.cgi URI. This issue has been fixed in Vigor3900/2960/300B v1.5.1.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA9.8 CRITICAL

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impacttotal

Exploitation Context

as of October 13, 2026

All KEV statistics→

CISA added CVE-2020-8515 to the KEV catalog 641 days after its CVE record was published.
It is one of 5 DrayTek entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and the only one added in 2021.
Its current EPSS score (100.0%) is higher than that of 97% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

3 Links

Other references

Record Details

Published

2020-02-01

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

mitre

Credited to

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