CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-24685

8.6 HIGH Published 2021-02-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-02-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-770, CWE-789

Description

An unauthenticated specially crafted packet sent by an attacker over the network will cause a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability. Vulnerability allows attacker to stop the PLC. After stopping (ERR LED flashing red), physical access to the PLC is required in order to restart the application. This issue affects: ABB AC500 V2 products with onboard Ethernet version 2.8.4 and prior versions.

Affected configurations

• abb ac500 cpu firmware (< 2.8.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
  • CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value weakness

References