CVE-2020-12699 — direct-mail
MEDIUMCVE-2020-12699 is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.1) Open Redirect vulnerability in directmailteam/direct-mail. A fix is available for directmailteam/direct-mail — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Open redirect in direct_mail
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2020-12699 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
directmailteam/direct-mailReal-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 an Open Redirect via jumpUrl.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐘Packagist | directmailteam/direct-mail | all versions | 5.2.4composer require directmailteam/direct-mail:^5.2.4 |
Affected Products
direct maildkdDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
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.
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-2020-12699 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Stop reflecting attacker-controlled destinations: resolve every redirect target against an allowlist of paths or hosts you own, prefer a server-side key over a full URL in the request, and reject absolute URLs entirely where the flow only ever needs a relative one.
Frequently Asked Questions
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