Coverage › CVE-2020-5741
CVE-2020-5741 Unmapped
Plex Media Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Plex — Media Server
- Description (CISA)
- Plex Media Server contains a remote code execution vulnerability that allows an attacker with access to the server administrator's Plex account to upload a malicious file via the Camera Upload feature and have the media server execute it.
- Added to KEV
- 2023-03-10
- Due date
- 2023-03-31
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-502
- CISA notes
- https://forums.plex.tv/t/security-regarding-cve-2020-5741/586819
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5741 - Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2020-5741. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-502) — here is why — and does not guess.
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