CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-12519

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2020-12-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-12-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-269

Description

On Phoenix Contact PLCnext Control Devices versions before 2021.0 LTS an attacker can use this vulnerability i.e. to open a reverse shell with root privileges.

Affected configurations

• phoenixcontact plcnext firmware (< 2021.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References