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01 Record

CVE-2020-12498

Phoenix Contact Automation Worx <= 1.87: out-of-bounds read remote code execution

HighPUBLISHEDCNA: CERTVDE
CNA base score7.8 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

02 Description

Phoenix Contact Automation Worx <= 1.87: out-of-bounds read remote code execution

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
2.10% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 81.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2020-07-01 15:52Z6 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-04 11:56Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2020-04-30
Assigning CNA
CERTVDE
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
High (CVSS 7.8)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
  • CWE-121Stack-based Buffer OverflowVariant
  • CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase
Data version
5.1
Document digest
a3dde80683b9bf7b4d95f3a236de36cd3f535a4ad54961b15a0825275475648a

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Phoenix ContactAutomation Worx<= 1.87—
Phoenix ContactAutomation Worx Express<= 1.87—

06 References

07 Remediation

With the next version of Automation Worx Software Suite (Version > 1.87) a sharpened input data validation with respect to buffer size and description of size and number of objects referenced in a file will be implemented.