02 Records
FEED: ACQUIRING
01 RecordSTATE: PUBLISHED
02 Description
CNA: CERTVDEPHOENIX CONTACT PLCnext Engineer version 2020.3.1 and earlier: Improper path sanitation vulnerability.
03 Exploitation and scoring
SRC: CISA, FIRST, NVD, RED HAT- 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
- 0.40% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Ranks above 33.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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.
SCHEMA: 5.1
- Published
- 2020-07-21 15:09Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-17 03:18Z1 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-04-30
- Assigning CNA
- CERTVDE
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 8.2)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- b65f5a15b4682210eebf44f925ef114a8b95744d4c5eabf8f49b1b4edd296cdc
05 Affected products
PAIRS: 1VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
SRC: CNA
Temporary Fix / Mitigation: We strongly recommend customers to exchange project files only using secure file exchange
services. Project files should not be exchanged via unencrypted email. Users should avoid
importing project files from unknown source and exchange or store project files together with a
checksum to ensure their integrity.
Remediation: Phoenix Contact strongly recommends updating to the latest version PLCnext Enineer 2020.6 or
higher, which fixes this vulnerability.