CVE-2020-6992
GE Digital CIMPLICITY Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description
A local privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified in the GE Digital CIMPLICITY HMI/SCADA product v10.0 and prior. If exploited, this vulnerability could allow an adversary to modify the system, leading to the arbitrary execution of code. This vulnerability is only exploitable if an attacker has access to an authenticated session. GE Digital CIMPLICITY v11.0, released January 2020, contains mitigation for this local privilege escalation vulnerability. GE Digital recommends all users upgrade to GE CIMPLICITY v11.0 or newer.
INFO
Published Date :
April 15, 2020, 5:15 p.m.
Last Modified :
April 22, 2020, 5:21 p.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
No
Impact Score :
5.9
Exploitability Score :
0.8
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github
CVE-2020-6992 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github.
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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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CVE-2020-6992.
| URL | Resource |
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| https://www.us-cert.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-098-02 | Third Party Advisory US Government Resource |
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Apr. 22, 2020
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Changed Reference Type https://www.us-cert.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-098-02 No Types Assigned https://www.us-cert.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-098-02 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource Added CWE NIST CWE-269 Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:ge:cimplicity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 10.0
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
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specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2020-6992 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
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approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2020-6992
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Exploit Prediction
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0.04 }} 0.00%
score
0.00501
percentile