CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-12494

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2020-06-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-06-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-459

Description

Beckhoff's TwinCAT RT network driver for Intel 8254x and 8255x is providing EtherCAT functionality. The driver implements real-time features. Except for Ethernet frames sent from real-time functionality, all other Ethernet frames sent through the driver are not padded if their payload is less than the minimum Ethernet frame size. Instead, arbitrary memory content is transmitted within in the padding bytes of the frame. Most likely this memory contains slices from previously transmitted or received frames. By this method, memory content is disclosed, however, an attacker can hardly control which memory content is affected. For example, the disclosure can be provoked with small sized ICMP echo requests sent to the device.

Affected configurations

• beckhoff twincat driver (<= 3.1.0.3603) • beckhoff twincat (<= 3.1.0.3512) • beckhoff twincat (<= 2.11.0.2120) • beckhoff twincat (<= 3.1.0.3600) • beckhoff twincat (<= 3.1.0.3500) • beckhoff twincat (<= 2.11.0.2117)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-459 Incomplete Cleanup weakness

References