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CVE-2020-12698 — direct-mail

MEDIUM

CVE-2020-12698 is a medium-severity (CVSS 4.3) CWE-862 vulnerability in directmailteam/direct-mail. A fix is available for directmailteam/direct-mail — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Missing Authorization in TYPO3 extension

Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Oct 6, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.8%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs54th percentile — riskier than 54% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.43%0.85%1.28%0.1%0.1%0.8%0.8%Apr 26Aug 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

CVE-2020-12698 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 385,738 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected
🐘directmailteam/direct-mail

Real-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Packagist packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.

Description

The direct_mail extension through 5.2.3 for TYPO3 has Broken Access Control for newsletter subscriber tables.

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🐘Packagistdirectmailteam/direct-mailall versions5.2.4composer require directmailteam/direct-mail:^5.2.4

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
direct maildkd
≤ 5.2.3
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for directmailteam/direct-mail, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update directmailteam/direct-mail to 5.2.4 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2020-12698 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used.

Frequently Asked Questions

The direct_mail extension through 5.2.3 for TYPO3 has Broken Access Control for newsletter subscriber tables.
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CVE-2020-12698: direct-mail — Fixed in 5.2.4