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CVE-2020-10189 — Zohocorp Manageengine Desktop Central

CISA KEV

CVSS v3.1 9.8 (CRITICAL) · EPSS 94.2% (higher than 99.9% of all scored CVEs) · Priority 9/10 · Published 2020-03-06

As of 2025-11-07, CVE-2020-10189 is a CRITICAL-severity vulnerability in Zohocorp Manageengine Desktop Central, CVSS v3.1 9.8, EPSS 94.2% (99.9th percentile). It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2021-11-03), with a US federal remediation deadline of 2022-05-03. Threadlinqs Intelligence links 1 tracked threat campaign to CVE-2020-10189, most recently “APT41/Silver Dragon Expanding Enterprise Attack Surface — Google Drive C2, AppDomain Hijacking, Cloud/Supply Chain Targeting”.

Last updated: 2025-11-07

What is CVE-2020-10189?

Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central before 10.0.474 allows remote code execution because of deserialization of untrusted data in getChartImage in the FileStorage class. This is related to the CewolfServlet and MDMLogUploaderServlet servlets.

The record classifies CVE-2020-10189 under weakness class CWE-502. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs no prior authentication, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 2382 days ago.

Severity and exploitation probability

CVSS v3.1 base score: 9.8 — CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (FIRST): 94.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.9% of all scored CVEs
CISA KEV: Listed since 2021-11-03, federal remediation deadline 2022-05-03
Threadlinqs priority: 9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
Published: 2020-03-06, last modified 2025-11-07

Is CVE-2020-10189 being exploited?

CISA added CVE-2020-10189 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2021-11-03, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2022-05-03 under BOD 22-01. It currently carries a trending score of 40 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

Affected products and versions

Zohocorp: Manageengine Desktop Central

How to fix CVE-2020-10189

Vendor advisory: https://www.manageengine.com/products/desktop-central/remote-code-execution-vulnerability.html. Because CVE-2020-10189 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2022-05-03. Apply the vendor fix referenced above to every affected product listed in this record, then confirm the running version against the vendor advisory.

Threat activity tracking CVE-2020-10189

1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2020-10189, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.

APT41/Silver Dragon Expanding Enterprise Attack Surface — Google Drive C2, AppDomain Hijacking, Cloud/Supply Chain Targeting — HIGH · 2026-03-27

Sources

Seeded from nvd and not yet processed by the Threadlinqs enrichment pipeline, so blank CVSS, EPSS or KEV fields above mean NOT MEASURED rather than measured-absent.

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